Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Concert: Introduction and Variations on "Trockne Blumen", D. 802; Die Schone Mullern...
Still, the family ties run deep: Billy and Paddy's father was the first of twenty-three men to die in the construction of Water Tunnel Three twenty years earlier, and Billy has returned to Hell's Kitchen once more to work as a sandhog in the tunnel to pay for his first year of law school. If the union disintegrates, he may not be able to make the money he needs to move beyond the streets of Hell's Kitchen and into a new world...
...time to find its way. A print magazine can take five years and many millions of dollars before turning a profit, and that's in a proven market where people actually pay for content. We need courage if we're going to create something wonderful. The New Yorker nearly died in 1925, the year it was born. Indeed, it did die for one day, before its patron reconsidered. The magazine at the time had a paltry circulation of 2,700--perhaps, as James Thurber once pointed out, because it started out so sophomoric and error prone. I'm not saying...
...diabetes and, like many activist atheists, feared that at her demise, religious relatives might commandeer her body and give it a Christian burial (or, as Kerns remembers her putting it, "stick a crucifix up my a__"). Faced with a sudden health crisis, the matriarch could have arranged to die unmolested and given Jon and Robin permission to jump ship. Such a blessing might have been welcome. "Jon told me numerous times that he was pretty fed up with the whole goddam thing," says Via. "If he had the opportunity to steal a million and a half dollars or 2 million...
...DIED. JEANE DIXON, 79, celebrity astrologer, psychic and widely read syndicated columnist; in Washington. Dixon's star (she was a Capricorn) began to rise following her prediction (published in 1956) that a young Democratic President elected in 1960 would die in office. A number of her prophecies came true (the fall of the Berlin Wall), but to skeptics' delight, many did not (Soviets getting to the moon first...