Word: die
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...America enters the next decade, it does so with an appalling legacy of gun violence. The 1980s were tragic years that saw nearly a quarter of a million Americans die from handguns -- four times as many as were killed in the Viet Nam War. We began the decade by witnessing yet another President, Ronald Reagan, become a victim of a would-be assassin's bullet. That day my husband Jim, his press secretary, also became a statistic in America's handgun...
...messages to the U.S. embassy in Moscow from a passing trolley bus. Though Soviet agents reportedly suspected his disloyalty for years, he repeatedly managed to wriggle out of trouble. Until just recently, that is. Last week Pravda revealed that Donald F. had at last been snared and sentenced to die...
...poet named Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...
...attempt to humanize the injured party. Yet the images are so shopworn and predictable that they in fact dehumanize. And the ostensible larger meaning is patently obvious: here lies another life that could have contributed much to society had it not been crushed by those who deserved to die instead...
...plebiscite on the future of Jammu and Kashmir state. That issue has always smoldered, but local politicians say it was the widespread vote rigging for candidates favored by Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party (I) in the 1987 elections that created a generation of committed young radicals ready to die for the secessionist cause. With the encouragement of V.P. Singh, the new Prime Minister, the state government recently attempted a display of good faith by ^ releasing 47 suspected militants and by promising talks with the rebels. But for many Kashmiris, the time for demonstrations of good faith is long past...