Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country unconscious and on life support, his body in a state of deterioration following a unsuccessful bone marrow transplant and liver and kidney failure. By Friday, the Israeli radio stations announced "Hussein is clinically dead." The king had returned to his land and its people, but only to die...
...live by the three, and you die by the three...
...matter-of-fact, and he says, "You know what? I can't lie. I did some things, and I deserve to be here." His father's abuse is part of what he became, he says. "But not a major part." He put himself in prison, he will likely die there, and his mother, who amazes him, is all he has. "Her love transcends whatever obstacle I've thrown in front...
...three days, according to the New York Times, "hiding in a hunting blind, wearing camouflage and face paint." Finally, as his three victims drove past, he shot and killed them all. He then got up from his hiding place and shot each one in the face. Mease was to die by lethal injection in two weeks, and Carnahan, the governor, had approved 26 executions since he took office six years ago. Yet he could not be expected to withstand the pressure of a personal request from John Paul II, and last Thursday he granted Mease clemency...
...oddly compelling to watch network television die. Executives whine about straying advertisers, overbid on sports and berate the Nielsens. Best of all, they're willing to air just about anything. You've got footage of a family caught on top of a rampaging circus elephant? A man urinating in the office coffee pot? Twentysomethings shooting milk out of their tear ducts for distance? The nets can probably squeeze any of that in the slot between DiResta and Malcolm & Eddie. Cable used to be the frat basement of television, full of "Skinemax" and foul-mouthed comics, but now you turn...