Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members are more loyal to their supporters than to their Speaker, that the real work of Congress amounted to the horse trading of small favors in the committee room, that freshmen in Congress are about as powerful as the doorkeepers, that the House is where bold schemes come to die...
...Before 1990] great strides were being made on prostate cancer, but the diagnosis of ovarian cancer was the diagnosis to die," Slaughter says...
...national elections of a country of 260 million, which the administration needs to be reminded is larger, more important, and even--gasp--wealthier than our precious University. Those of us in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs are grown up enough to train to kill and, if necessary, die for this country. But the administration is probably right: I'm not grown up enough to choose where I live...
Confederate war memorials are, to me, reminiscent of German World War II memorials; that the cause was undoubtedly wrong does not mean that the young men who died at the front for what they believed was their patriotic duty were immoral or, for their part, doing "the Devil's work." They were doing what they thought was their duty, and they had the courage--as many of us do not--to fight and die...
...terribly long ago that Harvard classmates faced each other on the battlefield. A Confederate war memorial is not a reinforcement of slavery or white supremacy; it is a testimony to the fact that thousands of people--intelligent, brave and moral people--can be terribly, tragically wrong and die before they find that...