Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They said XTC was dead. After years spent in and out of mental institutions, fans and critics believed lead singer and lyricist Andy Partridge was permanently committed. After a soaring success with the 1986 album Skylarking and its hit single "Dear God," the group was reportedly breaking...
...dead last in the A.L. East...
SUCH an argument easily extends to the dearth of women on the faculty of the University. Harvard ranks dead last in the Ivy League in terms of tenured women, since women make up only 5 percent of the faculty University-wide. When such prestigious institutions as Columbia, Pennsylvannia, Berkeley, Dartmouth, and Cornell have percentages twice as high as Harvard's, it leads one to the conclusion that the problem is inherent in the institution and not in the pool...
King said he got the idea for his book, The Dead Zone, in which a man is able to see the future, from thinking about what one would do if given the opportunity to kill Hitler before he rose to power...
...came during a state visit to New Zealand, was prompted by a hard-hitting documentary on Norwegian sealing that had aired the previous week on North European television. The footage showed hunters stabbing baby and adult seals with ice picks and in some instances dragging the animals, only half dead, back to Norwegian flaying vessels. The King's comments were strong stuff, considering Norway's sensitivity to criticism from Sweden, its onetime colonial master and its archrival. Said Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson of the King, before rushing off to Norway on a fence- mending mission: "He must have been...