Word: dies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
This time, Abu-Jamal has larger sums at his disposal. A committee has raised $100,000 from the likes of actors Ed Asner and Whoopi Goldberg and academician Cornel West. That might be enough money to buy three more years' worth of appeals. No one expects Abu-Jamal to die...
...last moment believing in the final victory." No one would be allowed to retreat; 13 million civilians were mobilized to fight with sticks and shovels if need be. One teenage girl was told, "If you don't kill at least one enemy soldier, you don't deserve to die...
...judging from what passed for press reports at the time, no one seemed to care. Democrats tried to frighten voters after Eisenhower fell ill in 1955. "They ran ads saying that if you elected Eisenhower, you were going to get Nixon because [Ike] was going to die," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...
...actually works in his favor. Because prostate cancer usually grows so slowly in older men, even if a tiny malignant cell had escaped from Dole's prostate before the organ was removed and had seeded another tumor elsewhere in his body, chances are excellent that he would still die with prostate cancer, as opposed to from it. "You can't guarantee a 100% cure," says Dr. Gerald Chodak, director of the Prostate/Urology Center at University of Chicago Hospital. "But the odds are very much in his favor." In Chodak's opinion, Dole could run for President "three times...