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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam war, with its legacy of a decade of senseless death and suffering, has created a unique situation, one in which conscience demands that individuals and groups use every possible opportunity to press for its immediate cessation. Because the circumstances are unique, the Faculty's decision to consider political questions today would not set a precedent for future votes on more mundane issues. But because the war is so abhorrent, the Faculty cannot fail to consider these two resolutions in formal session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Votes | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

...with a penknife. He pumped five bullets into the teenager's chest. No knife is ever found. Browning (and black America) recognizes the killing for what it is: cold-blooded murder. His faith in the country completely shattered, he arranges through the Mafia a contract for the policeman's death...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: From the Shelf Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light 279 pages; Little, Brown and Co.; $5.95 | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...thus letting white America know that it can no longer wantonly murder blacks without retribution. He hopes that it will also head off massive unorganized ghetto revolts in which only blacks suffer. But Browning's hopes crumple like a dynamited bridge, as the policeman's death touches off an uncontrollable swirl of events...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: From the Shelf Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light 279 pages; Little, Brown and Co.; $5.95 | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

Guide Alan Blackwell reported yesterday in Burns Lake. British Columbia, that a hunter has killed what may be the largest grizzly bear ever shot. It weighed 1200 pounds at the time of its death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caspersen Kills 1200-Pound Bear | 10/4/1969 | See Source »

...girders and consumed by the relentless forward movement of concrete progress. More explicitly, the natural world for Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance, the use of lighted store interiors as a metaphor for death in Mass for the Sioux Dead ). Baillie's most frequent subject is the interaction between a poetic Nature and an ugly modernity, producing a restriction on the play of light...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Films of Bruce Baillie Second in a two-part retrospective at the Harvard-Epworth Church, 7 p.m. | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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