Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that stories which mourn death can also sustain life, what makes this novel truly heartbreaking is his understanding of the limits of stories--the stubborn persistence of real life. Peck possess the double ability to spin beautiful fictions and then expose their falsity. As John watches the emaciated Martin die. Peck offers a delicate, gruesome image: "The way his shoulders shook and the way his bones poked at his wet skin made me think of old rice-paper lanterns shaking in the wind, starting to melt in the rain...
...rural section of Wayne County, Michigan, watched as a man she had seen on the evening news unloaded his paraphernalia at the home of her neighbor Jack Miller, 53, a tree trimmer who suffered from terminal bone cancer. "I knew," she later told reporters, "somebody was going to die...
...Facing a March 30 state deadline specifically enacted to end his practice of medically assisting suicides, Dr. Jack Kevorkian and two helpers assembled the machinery that allowed Miller to do himself in. But this ninth "medicide" since 1990 offered some new twists: Miller was the first male to die and the first outside Kevorkian's former home territory of Oakland County. The message, said his attorney, was that Kevorkian would not only defy the impending Michigan ban but continue to expand his practice throughout the state to include anyone, anywhere, anytime...
...Clinton moves quickly to name a successor, it is likely that the furor will die out. Chief of staff McLarty and counselor Bruce Lindsey will oversee the new selection process. To his credit, Clinton assumed full responsibility for the blunder. Moreover, once the nomination began to crumble, he retreated swiftly, recovering with some grace from a nasty stumble...
...light crude leaked into the sea, turning it chocolate brown. On the seventh day, the pounding caused spouts of oil to gush spasmodically from deck hatches, making the tanker look like some pitiful beached whale blowing black blood in the throes of death. The following day the ship did die, splitting into at least three pieces and releasing all its remaining oil into the turbulent...