Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past ten years. Two weeks ago, an eight-year-old Jewish boy was found murdered near the West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh. Almost no one in Israel doubts that the deed was committed by a Palestinian...
...convicted in absentia, in 1952 and 1954, of an extensive list of war crimes in Vichy France, including the murder of 4,342 people and the deportation to concentration camps of 7,591 Jews, most of whom perished. His name is guaranteed to live in French infamy for one deed alone, the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance hero and Charles de Gaulle's representative to the underground. But because the statute of limitations has run out on many of his crimes, the career Nazi official will not stand trial for most of the outrages he is known...
Whatever the French think, Americans are not particularly immature on the subject of sex and the misdemeanors of public men. On the whole, Americans tend to look beyond the act. They examine the deed for what it tells them about the man. Americans are not simpletons of morality...
...money made it possible for the Brauers and their lawyer to work out a deal with the bankruptcy trustee to buy back the farmhouse and 38 acres. Last Thursday a county clerk recorded the deed in the Brauers' name. Margie, who had taken a job as a hospital secretary to supplement Ernie's $300 monthly Social Security check, sat securely in her kitchen last week. "I look out my window," she said. "Our view is so lovely from the house down to the creek. It has never been so green." But then she added quietly, "So many good things have...
...Bennett has backed up word with deed. In its education budget for fiscal year 1988 the Administration called for a 45 percent reduction in student financial aid from $8.2 billion to $4.5 billion and a $5.5 billion cut from federal spending of $19.5 billion on education...