Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death, even as life expectancies increase. While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night. The best-seller lists are crowded, in fact, with titles such as How We Die and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Perhaps it is because aids and cancer have implicated us all in the abruptness of extinction, or merely that publishers see a killing in the most universal experience of them all. But that, in either case, may be a blessing: when we spend months...
...country." The Russian fixed him with steel-blue eyes and replied, quietly and evenly, "Don't wait for me. I am never going to the United States. I am not doing this for you. I am doing this for my country. I was born a Russian, and I will die a Russian." But what will be your fate, asked the American, if your spying is discovered? The reply came in Russian: "Bratskaya mogila" -- a common, unmarked grave...
...instant cities of despairing souls on the borders of Rwanda, hope proved less contagious than fear or cholera. Thousands of refugees kept dying in the ghastly camps of Zaire last week, as many as 2,000 a day. As the world struggled to assuage the suffering, word went out from the U.N., the White House, the relief agencies to 2 million sick and starving people: there is food in Rwanda and clean water and a promise of safety. Go home: that is the only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going to die...
...first doctor who ever saw her diagnosed her as suffering from hysteria. Since then all the other doctors have subscribed to the first docotor's diagnosis. Angry, frustrated and humiliated, Diana and Deric give up on the medical community and fight the illness on their own, she waits to die while he hopes to keep her from taking her life...
...hard it is impossible to drill new wells or dig latrines without heavy mechanical equipment, which is still days away. "What do you mean, I must make sure to boil the water?" refugee Dafrose Kabutumwa asked a reporter. "Can't you see we're all going to die here...