Word: die
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...death house, Beavers, who had waived his appeals and insisted that he wanted to die for the 1986 abduction and shooting of a Houston restaurant manager and the wounding of his wife, devoured a final meal of French toast, sausage, eggs, French fries and six brownies. Then he was led into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden...
...wife dies, a man is more likely to die within the next two years than other men his age," she said. "If a woman's husband dies, she may grieve or not grieve, but she's not likely to die...
...There was not one woman over 50 doing anything any American would want to do--you know, loving, working, flirting, eating gourmet food--and yet the news magazines were full of articles about old people refusing to die," Friedan said...
...movement's only course will be to rely on the techniques of desperation: blockades, protests and harassment. But these tactics offer no long-term hope for the movement; to the contrary, they will only push it further to the fringes. And once on the fringes, the movement may die altogether...
Some projects are better left unfinished, especially when they die as miserably as "The Hudsucker Proxy" does. For all the great moments of the first half, the only good things about the second half of this hapless flick is the bounty comparisons it begs. For instance, unlike the fresh pot of coffee you will need to revive yourself when the credits roll, this ill-conceived attempt from director Joel and Ethan Coen tastes more like the four day-old black sludge forgotten on the kitchen counter--bitter, could and best thrown...