Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crushed beneath the girders. She begged them to try another way. "She was in shock, but very alert. We said, regardless, we are going to do it." The risk, the team agreed, was that without immediate surgery, Bradley would quickly lapse into a coma and die...
...some time, sir, your opinion on this warchanged," the man continued in a steady but angryvoice. "Why did McNally [a man in his battalion]die when you knew this war was a mistake? Why didyou remain silent...
...become one of the leading causes of death or injury among babies and small children according to the most comprehensive national study to date of child deaths conducted by the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect. At least 2,000abused children, most under the age of four, die each year, which is more than die in car accidents, house fires, falls or drownings. Another 160,000 are either permanently disabled or seriously injured. Physical harm is most often inflicted by male caretakers who beat, suffocate or burn a young child when enraged or stressed. Mothers are more frequentlyguilty...
...then left office, took the helm of the Ford Motor Company and went to the World Bank, where he became an excellent leader again, and is now safe and sound, his hair still slicked back as 30 years ago. Hey, think about that song. "Only The Good Die Young...
...estimated 2,000 died in Rwanda when government soldiers opened fire on a refugee camp. Some were felled by bullets and mortar fire, but many were trampled in the ensuing panic. Tens of thousands of refugees fled the camp in Kibeho toward the provincial capital of Butare. Another 600, some armed with rifles and grenades, holed up in a church and vowed to die before surrendering to government troops. The group is apparently made up ofhard-line Hutus fearing reprisalfrom the Tutsi-led government army forlast year's killing of 500,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis. Kibeho was home...