Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...older he grows, the harder it gets for Captain Midlife to take this ( season. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. Five weeks of souped-up revels strung out like dead leaf fires. Not that January is any great shakes either, with its glass-eye skies threatening to shatter; or loony February; or March blowing about one's head like some parent ranting in a never-cleaned-up room. Still, it is this season that gets the Captain down, and up, and down again. Poor Captain Midlife. Can anybody out there lend him a hand...
...streets of Haiti. Frightened citizens climbed out from beneath their beds. Uneasy merchants reopened their shops for limited hours. From hiding, election officials fired off defiant messages. But the activity could not disguise the deep psychic toll taken by the election-day violence that left at least 50 people dead and dozens wounded last week. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, hundreds of Haitians packed their meager belongings and fled to the countryside. At the Basilica Notre Dame, the usual crowd of devout worshipers was missing. Instead, a few beggars haunted the steps. It was as if Haitians had lost...
...Americans and Haitians alike, Namphy's junta never demonstrated a commitment to fair elections. As early as last June, Namphy attempted to wrest control of the voting process from the electoral council. Ensuing protests forced the general to back down, but not before soldiers had shot 30 Haitians dead. Two months later a presidential candidate was hacked to death by machete. In October a second candidate was shot fatally. In neither instance was an investigation publicly ordered. Last month the electoral council, citing the new constitution's ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office, disqualified twelve presidential candidates. After...
Sawyer's first task will be to persuade the late mayor's disappointed followers that he has not made any deals with the white aldermen who gave him his new job. "When Harold Washington proclaimed that the machine is dead, he was speaking the absolute truth," Sawyer declared after being sworn in. "Harold, buddy, I will not let you down." But unless such rhetoric is followed by deeds, most Chicago voters, black and white, will remain skeptical...
...Rome, her companion said, "It is useless to travel alone." As a guard watched over them in the Bahrain airport, the woman took out a pack of Marlboros. Removing a glass capsule, the couple consumed an unknown substance and slumped forward. Rushed to a hospital, the man was pronounced dead. The woman survived but refused to talk...