Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...borrow for their own purposes. Accompanied by his favorite monks and nuns, Buddha was content to be fed by local admirers and once scandalized his band by eating in the home of a courtesan. His last incarnation completed, at 80 Buddha lay down in a sola grove to die, passing out of the endless cycle of life into the great nirvana...
...with the Kennedys" (by, for instance, voting for the Peace Corps). After 23 years in Congress, Whitten has risen to the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Appropriations for Agriculture and may succeed to the chairmanship of Appropriations some day when the committee's four senior, older Democrats die...
...announced that it would press charges against four of the leaders of the October demonstrations. The students felt that the administration had broken an implicit promise, and the F.S.M. had a new campaign to fight. As one student put it, "the feverish enthusiasm for the F.S.M. always seems to die out until the University makes another incredible blunder, which it always seems...
...while the first planes took off, then scrambled for the last plane, which waited with its engines whining impatiently. They took off in a hail of mercifully inaccurate rebel fire. Aboard one of the planes flew Mrs. Angeline Tucker and her three children. She had not seen her husband die. After that, to the disgust of U.S. and Belgian officials on the scene, the paratroopers were withdrawn, presumably in deference to "world opinion," even though an estimated 1,100 whites were still in rebel-held territory...
Quarterback John McCluskey was running the Harvard offense. McCluskey, too, had spent much of the season on the bench, slowed by a painful hamstring pull. He had also been forced to watch the Crimson attack flicker and die, as the team was shut out by Dartmouth and Princeton...