Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high taxes on older people. The deteriorating state of mind. The disease. The ulcers. When elderly people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians don't do that, run people out of their homes for no reason. It is a goddamned crime. It is grand-felony theft...
Each day when the Illinois legislature is in session, women costumed as suffragists in blouses and long skirts hold a silent vigil in the state capitol. The women, like many others, are waiting for the legislators to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. ERA will die if not approved by 38 states before March 22,1979, and Illinois, the one Northern industrial state yet to pass the measure, could be the 36th. Ratification there would keep alive the amendment's slim chance of approval before the deadline. Even ERA supporters concede that defeat in Illinois would make it nearly impossible...
...many good boys die over there," he says, fingering a pack of the cigarettes he still buys tax-free from a Boston-area military commissary. The clock in the Lowell House Superintendent's Office reads 8:30. Four hours...
...retrospect, he says, Vietnam was clearly an unjust war and he might have been out there demonstrating himself were he young: "As I thought about it more, I realized it wasn't necessary for them to die." It was in Vietnam in 1965 with "airplanes and more aiplanes coming every day from home" that Richardson began to tire of his career. When it came time for another tour of duty, he opted out--"A little too old run those hills...
...decide on the guilt or innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti. His appointees were Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, president Samuel W. Stratton of MIT and Robert Grant, a retired probate judge. It was up to them to decide whether the two Italian anarchists should live or die. By this time it was July. I had decided that Harvard was the place to be that summer, so I stayed on as a University guide...