Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside, in a crowded courtroom, three young Azerbaijani defendants sat motionless as they listened to witnesses describe a violent clash between ethnic Armenians and ethnic Azerbaijanis that left 32 dead and 400 wounded in the Azerbaijani port city of Sumgait last February. Struggling to hold back tears, an aging Armenian woman described how she had watched an Azerbaijani mob burn a man to death in his automobile. A Russian doctor described the head < wounds he had found on the corpse of a man beaten to death with lead pipes...
...priests left the hospital, silent, sagging. Their duty was plainly over, whatever it had been. Asked if Kennedy was dead or alive, they remained silent for a few seconds. Then one of them blurted the terrible truth: "He's dead, all right." The four words were carried back to the temporary pressroom, then exploded around the world...
Meyer, listed under exhibition status, nailed an unofficial first in the 400-yd. individual medley, breaking a dead heat with B.C. swimmer Nicole Engh in 4:37.36. The race was a flashback to the NCAA championships with the same two competitors duking for first...
...Diego, wept and shouted and chanted, "We love you!" White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein, a veteran of years of campaign hoopla, was stunned as the sound filled the hall. "I've never heard anything like it," remembered Duberstein. And then Reagan invoked the memories of his dead parents: "And I just hope that Nelle and Jack are looking down on us right now and nodding their heads and saying their kid did them proud...
...vote, Bush had little momentum. Dole had picked up Alexander Haig's endorsement. (When a Bush aide later read him a Haig quote saying "I did all the damage I could," Bush stared out a window and muttered, "That's sick.") That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top. Bush looked over at pollster Bob Teeter and said, "I thought you said I was 5 or 6 up!" Teeter shrugged. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, Bush's state chairman, assured him the voters...