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Word: deadness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patrick Wallace, a worker in a local paper plant, shinnied up a tree to reach the fallen highway. He saw two women dead in a flattened auto. Then he heard "one little whimper" from the backseat. Pinned beneath a slab of concrete and the body of his mother was Julio Berumen, 6. His less seriously injured sister, Cathy, 8, also lay there. For nearly an hour, Wallace struggled to free the boy. Once he felt movement. "But it turned out it was just the clothing sliding from his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Many well-built structures survived with minor damage, but 90% of all buildings were of frame construction. Wooden dwellings in the congested area south of Market (where most of the dead would be found) were reduced to heaps of kindling, which were quickly set afire by overturned stoves. Scattered blazes began to burn at once. Yet the city's troubles had hardly begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First The Shaking, Then the Flames | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

BOSTON--Just hours after a pregnant woman and her husband from the suburbs were shot in a robbery attempt that outraged the city, a young Black man was shot in the neck and pronounced dead on arrival at a city hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Killings Overshadow Man's Death | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

Ambulance emergency medical technicians brought Moody to Carney Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 12:25 a.m., police spokesperson Jill Reilly said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Killings Overshadow Man's Death | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

...Barnard, who would become some of the best-known photographers of the century. (All three eventually left Brady's employ in a huff over his practice of attaching his own name to their work.) Their pictures gave war a new face, stark and squalid, the face of the openmouthed dead on the fields of Gettysburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Early Days 1839-1880 | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

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