Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overpowered civilians. By 5 a.m. Tiananmen Square was virtually emptied of all protesters; only the carcasses of smoldering vehicles and debris remained. Elsewhere in the city, sporadic skirmishes continued, but by then the great, peaceful dream for democracy had become a horrible nightmare. Hospitals reported receiving scores of dead and hundreds or even thousands of wounded. One anguished doctor reported at least 500 dead. When the government radio announced that 1,000 had died, the station's personnel were quickly removed, and no further death toll was broadcast. Reports circulated that many bodies were being trucked away to be cremated...
...scared to go out to church at night for fear someone will break in while I'm gone. It's already happened once. With all the dopeheads around here, there's shooting almost every night. You walk out the door, they're liable to shoot you dead...
...when Tehran Radio announced early this week that the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's revolutionary zealot, was dead at 89, millions of his countrymen mourned the loss. They did so even though the movement he led plunged them into a devastating war with Iraq and left a legacy of turbulence at home and terrorism abroad. To his people, the patriarch with the baleful dark eyes and white beard had been the heart and sword of their revolution, the icon of implacable opposition -- first to the dictatorship of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and then to the U.S., which the Ayatullah relentlessly...
...plays piano. But the Lipkins and the Hepburn-Saravians, their haughty next- door neighbors, are egalitarians when considering where their next bedmate should come from. By the end of a weekend in the country, two elegant matrons will have been seduced by their former husbands, one of whom is dead. And everybody upstairs will have slept with everybody downstairs...
...ideological conservatism among faculty and American intellectuals in general is responsible for closing the American mind much tighter and farther than any other existing attitude toward education at large. Thus, only leadership from the alumni, trustees, the president and progressive faculty members can move this issue off of dead center. In any case, I would hope that Dean of the Faculty Michael Spence exercises the leadership which is often initially necessary to build a lasting concensus among the faculty on such matters...