Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sexes apart. Among the teachers and scholars was a group called the Cynics, who let their hair and beards grow, were slovenly in their dress. The morals declined. Rioting was commonplace. And all the time the twin diseases of confiscatory taxation and creeping inflation were waiting to deliver the death blow. When they finally overcame the energy and ambition of Rome's middle class, Rome fell...
...deaths which befall each of the major characters take place almost incidentally and make their heroic, existential, death-defying gestures almost futile. Two of them are killed when their truck is blown to pieces. The explosion takes place a long way from the other truck, but the wind it produces is so great that it whisks away a cigarette from the mouth of one of the drivers...
...situation was a difficult one. On one hand, the housing shortages were getting worse, yet on the other, neighbors would probably fight to the death-in the City Council, and perhaps even in the courts-against a proposal which would bring lowerincome Cambridge residents into the neighborhood around Shady Hill. Caught in the middle, Edward S. Gruson, Pusey's new assistant for Community Affairs, and other Harvard planning officials took the srinplest course: they split the difference between the 150 units Harvard was going to build and the 500 units the GSD asked, and began to develop plans...
...aren't you? If we hadn't joined the fight against Hitler. you probably wouldn't be alive today. "Oh no, says he, "that was in Europe." His attitude then explains, I think, a great deal about his writing now: the glib, absurd equation of Hitler's factories of death and the war in Vietnam; the facile postmortem advice to the Jews of Auschwitz and Treblinka (they should have fought, he thinks, precisely because it would have made no difference) from someone who writes that the only reason he wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that...
Harvard's rugby team traded penalty kicks with Dartmouth for two halves of Saturday's game and finally lost in sudden-death overtime on another...