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Word: die (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mothers, you must keep your children under control! They must die with dignity!" Over the shrieks of the young and the sound of gunshots boomed the baritone voice of Jim Jones, exhorting his followers to spray cyanide deep into the throats of infants and any adults who resisted his order to die. This haunting echo of the Jonestown horror was discovered last week on one of hundreds of tape recordings discovered by the FBI and Guyanese officials at the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana. The tape was on a recording machine that had apparently been turned on just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Eerie Echoes, Missing Money | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser/ And the best that you can hope for/ Is to die in your sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pick of the Holiday Season | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Normally Reese bamboozles opponents with his deft touch in negotiating the angles of Hemenway. Yesterday, however, the courts were hotter than usual and the heat produced a livelier, bouncier ball. Reese and the rest of the racquetmen therefore had difficulties in making finesse shots die off the side walls but they soon adjusted to the longer rallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Breeze Past Trinity, 9-0 | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...Feeling for Father & this cause is a very happy one I can not think of anything that I would or could be happier with. Father is wonderful, clean, straight forward & Supernatural. I play no sexual games to jealous to play sexual games. I am not afraid to die but would like to die for a reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anguishing Letters to Dad | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...used to think why was I born, why do people have to die, every time I think about it I cried. Now I'm ready to die for this cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anguishing Letters to Dad | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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