Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release. While flatly refusing to submit to such outrageous blackmail, the U.S. was all but powerless to free the victims. As the days passed, nerves became more frayed and the crisis deepened. So far as was known, the hostages had been humiliated but not harmed. Yet with demonstrators chanting "Death to America" outside the compound, there was no way to guarantee that the event would not have a violent ending...
...Sunday, Nov. 4, hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Tehran outside the U.S. embassy, a 27-acre compound surrounded by ten-and twelve-foot brick walls and secured with metal gates. The students, most of whom were unarmed, chanted anti-American slogans and carried banners: DEATH TO AMERICA IS A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT and GIVE us THE SHAH. At the very hour at which the demonstration was taking place in Tehran, the Ayatullah Khomeini was telling a student in the holy city of Qum, some 80 miles to the south, that foreign "enemies" were plotting against the Iranian revolution. Repeatedly...
Outside the medical center, the crowd of demonstrators has become smaller and quieter since the seizure of the embassy; but the protesters-carrying signs calling for the Shah's death-are still there...
...heart of the play, a gardener who can't say no to friends or enemies. Irrepressible in death, refusing to leave his son in peace, Da represents sheer goodness--sweetness--in a world that feeds on bitterness and evil. It is no coincidence that Da's death occurs in 1968, a year that symbolizes terrifying, violent upheaval...
...Massachusetts law originally prescribed death by hanging or pressing for anyone who "willfully blasphemes the holy name of God." Meserve said, but added the sentence was long ago modified to a jail term. The current maximum penalty is a $300 line and a one-year jail sentence...