Word: die
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people begin dying and a storm prevents any escape from Indian Island, it becomes apparent that Mr. Owen is one of the guests and he plans to kill the entire company the same way the "Ten Little Indians" die in a framed nursery rhyme which hangs over the mantle of the living room...
...Miss Emily Brent, an aged spinster, Andrea Thome manages to keep her back erect and her opinions prim even as her peers die in hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a manner that is both disconcerting (Ducey's mouth hangs open for much of his time on stage) and endearing (when he apologetically requests a certain seat because "that's where my chair is at the Club...
...Crimson defense, led by Yadao, Joslin and Co-Captain Erin O'Brien, continued to stall the aggressive Brown offense, breaking up their last two penalty corners and forcing them into a ten-minute do-or-die overtime period...
...this insensitivity that allowed Harvardians to evade the Vietnam draft with clean consciences and let the "hill-billies" die in their stead (a point made by James M. Fallows '70 in his brilliant essay "What Did You Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy...
...water dripping somewhere. I saw a car smashed so flat I couldn't tell if anyone had been in it." When he got closer, he saw that the driver had been decapitated. The falling wall had smashed seven cars, killing at least five people. "I've seen people die, but nothing like this," said San Francisco fire battalion chief Jack Bogue...