Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1950s were "painful" and "complicated" for Blacks in America, as were the 1940s, the 1930s and every preceding decade. But Jim Crow and segregation weren't invented in the 1950s--indeed, the 1950s sounded the death knell for government-sanctioned discrimination in the United States...
Chris Lappin tipped a shot that deflected off N.U. goalie Rich Burchill with 4:41 left in the sudden death period to lift the Terriers to their sixth appearance in the title game since...
...Bundy, who fought until his end for a stay of execution, lost the battle. But Bundy, whose life was made significant by the joy he found in death...
...both his life and his death, Bundy demonstrated the fragility of our society and our self-image. As Bundy told The New York Times in 1986, "if anyone considers me a monster that's just something they'll have to confront in themselves. For people to want to condemn someone, to dehumanize someone like me is a very popular and effective and understandable way of dealing with a fear and a threat that is incomprehensible...
...moment of Bundy's death the 300 men and women gathered outside the prison started down that path. How much resepct for the sanctity of human life did they have, as they sang to the tune of "Old Smokey": "He bludgeoned the poor girls/all over the head/Now we're all ecstatic/Ted Bundy is dead...