Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanksgiving sometimes runs the risk of sounding smug. The feasting takes place in a world where people die of starvation every day. The self-praises and even the thanks for good fortune are of little use to those who are less fortunate. So if this is a time to give thanks, it is also a time not to take the stored harvest for granted. Americans sense an uncertain and uncontrolled element in their lives. That is evident in the kind of restless discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting...
...still locked up tight. The merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris, Khomeini repeated his do-or-die demands that the Shah must...
...over Peggy, and resolves to get Corky to a doctor. Fats doesn't care for this plan at all. Following his suggestion, Corky bops the agent over the head -- with Fats -- and dumps the body in the lake. From then on, the blood never stops flowing; some characters even die twice...
...notion that individuals have a right to expect certain services from government. In America, to depend too much on government is seen as a weakness and an inhibitor of freedom. At the simplest level, the logical development of this attitude ensures the freedom to starve or to die of ill-health, through inability to pay the doctor's bills. There is certainly a relationship between the values of a society and the form of its healthcare delivery system. Perhaps Europeans have less cultural and ideological inhibitions in allocating certain tasks to the state. As a result of this, the programs...
...known that the two men would die when I left them. In so many words I told them so. Now I knew they were dead. I had felt removed from them when I talked to them. At the same time their fate scared me, my mind couldn't cope. There were too many voices, unconnected, too many trains of thought, all at once. The fact they were in such trouble eventually only made me focus more on my own. They seemed equally removed when I heard for a fact they were dead, which is odd, since I have as clear...