Word: die
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Over the years, the public has come to expect that kind of desperate oratory from a charlatan like Farrakhan, who usually concludes his remonstrations by saying, "All white America could be asked to die to equal the score." But even more responsible Black leaders have fanned the flames of resentment with attempts to blame "whitey." Of course there are white racists in America, but they aren't running the justice department...
Back in New Orleans, however, the purer jazz forms had refused to die. During the '60s, some of Louis Armstrong's aging contemporaries launched a "revival" of the old style, centered mainly around Preservation Hall, a former French Quarter art gallery where the musicians initially played for tips. At about the same time, a group of younger, more modern musicians came of age. Among them was a gifted pianist and teacher named Ellis Marsalis...
...regattas don't die, they just keep going, and going, and going and going...
...pollution. More than 150 million Americans live in areas which fall below federal clean air standards, and the American Lung Association estimates that more than 100,000 people in this country die each year from dry sulfate air poisoning alone. President Bush introduced a new clean air bill last year to combat this problem; during the campaign he spoke of individuals' "right" to breathe clean air. But now Bush is threatening to veto this very bill, the first of its kind since 1977, because Congressional Democrats had the nerve to attach real enforcement mechanisms to Bush's platitudes...
...habitually taken as occasions for armed offensives, rather than for hard thought and innovation. And war, to a warrior people, is of course the highest adventure, the surest antidote to malaise, the endlessly repeated theme of legend, song, religious myth and personal quest for meaning. It is how men die and what they find to live...