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Word: died (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bomb the hell out of them. This thing really pisses me off. Who knows what they're doing to those hostages, and they're already doomed to die. It's time we just did something." Bomb them, they agreed...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...country be a haven for criminals? Iran under the Shah, with its one party state, mob rallies, militaristic policies and Gestapo-style security system, has been aptly compared to Nazi Germany. The guilt of those responsible for this horror is not diminished because fewer people were tortured and die...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Americanism? | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...scent of the store has grown sour, nauseous. You try to hold your breath while heading for the door because otherwise you are going to die, and dropped-dead on the floor you will not make a cosmetically fetching corpse. But you stop first and buy a package of mints, half-believing that your exhalation of sweet, clear breath will be sufficient to extinguish the world, or at least Brattle Street...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...into The Choir Invisible, this is the nearest thing to a recording of thousands of cherubim and seraphim singing their little hearts out on Judgment Day. All sweetness and light. But if you're not ready to die yet, try something a little more down to earth...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Even literature comes to life, after a fashion. "Shogun" was the story of 17th-century Japanese warriors. In a major mutation, Shoguns have evolved since into $7 "die-cast metal warriors" with arm-mounted rocket launchers. Not only that, they have "vertilift" airplanes. Not only that, people buy them...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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