Word: die
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolling began. Byron, an electrical engineer, fell to the floor. Neta tried to get up but remained pinned to her chair until she rolled onto the floor. "I sat under the desk and thought I would be buried," she recalled. "I thought, 'This is it. I'm going to die...
...upper deck of the Bay Bridge. He gripped the steering wheel hard as the car bounced up and down, then plunged toward the water. A 50-ft. piece of roadway had broken off and fallen onto the lower deck, carrying him with it. "Janice, we are going to die!" he shouted to his passenger. But something caught the car, and they were able to crawl out the windows to safety. Don Laviletta, riding his motorcycle on the upper deck, described how the roadway bulged and rippled toward him "like bumper cars -- only you could die in this game." The driver...
BEETHOVEN: AN DIE FERNE GELIEBTE/BRAHMS: VIER ERNSTE GESAENGE (Deutsche Grammophon). Tenors, sopranos, basses, mezzos: eat your hearts out! The best classical singer since World War II is baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who proves it on this dazzling lieder collection...
...participation in overseas programs that sanctioned abortion. Nowhere is the slogan pro-life more cruelly inappropriate than in the vast famine-stricken regions of the Third World, where birth and death rates are entwined in a vicious spiral. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute notes that 40,000 babies die each day from malnutrition and disease, and that many of these deaths occur in areas where overpopulation has destroyed ecosystems vital for human survival...
...Stalinist models of Socialism are sentenced to die out, and no one can keep them alive," Dashichev said...