Word: died
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sarah is not ready to join her. "You can die if you want," the octogenarian says, "but I am not ready." Indeed she's not. She has to visit with Tisha, a friend of 50 years, and maybe start a little romance with Mr. Maranov, a vestige of the Russian nobility who has, since the Russian Revolution, spent his life visiting friends. He's a gentleman, as Tisha puts it "the last of the cavaliers, and rich, as in idle...
...MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow. An eminent botanist is the hapless hero of the Nobel laureate's rueful, comic tale of love and money among the intellectuals...
...Hart and potentially the most to gain. Until now the Massachusetts Governor's hegemony in the neighboring state of New Hampshire was taken for granted. But Hart won a breakthrough victory in that state's 1984 primary, and it is here that he intends to make his do-or-die stand in 1988. "If there's one loser, it's Dukakis," theorizes Political Consultant Ralph Mongeluzo. "When Hart dropped out, a big part of his support went to Dukakis. Now he'll have a shot at getting it back." Early polls show Hart vaulting into second place behind Dukakis...
...entire operation for Tigre and Eritrea to a halt for more than a month. Not only were the convoys under threat from Eritrean and Tigrean rebels, but even those agencies willing to risk assault could not move their trucks because the government closed the roads. "If many people die this year and next, it will not be due to drought but the politico- military situation," said one relief worker...
Another nation in agony is Malawi, which is suffering from both disastrous crop failures and an influx of 300,000 refugees from neighboring Mozambique. "Unless massive food supplies are brought in urgently," says a Western aid official, thousands will die...