Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fancy is stretched to imagine life's last event by every device of art, by every technique of simulation. Yet finally nothing will do but to meet death face to face. It is time for the ultimate field trip. Station wagons and minibuses piloted by volunteer mothers head out for the Williams-Thomas Funeral Home...
...night, and the accused have never yet been represented by a defense attorney. They may speak in their own behalf, but members of the audience also may, and frequently do, step forward to add accusations of their own to those presented by the prosecutor. When the sentence of death is pronounced, as it has been this year against more than 600 Iranians accused as officials and agents of the Shah, it is usually carried out within hours...
...crashing outside the vault, but we had no way of knowing what it was. Our room was now mostly quiet. It was getting warmer and warmer; the first real thoughts began to enter your mind that you could die here, that somebody was trying to cook us to death-quite literally. The link to reality was Dixie...
From the first days of Bazargan's "civilian" rule last February, however, the Council acted more as a rival government, frequently countermanding government directives and intervening in day-to-day administration. The Council directs the revolutionary tribunals that have already put to death by firing squad more than 630 of the Shah's supporters and others. It also controls the Islamic militias and the Islamic Guard, a sort of praetorian security unit for the mullahs...
While all this is going on inside the embassy, the prisoners have had to endure yet another terrifying pressure coming from outside-the endless roar of crowds in the street chanting "Death to America!" Said Terri Tedford, 41, an embassy secretary: "It had a very definite effect on me. I don't think I could have lasted another week, not another...