Word: dying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced the playoff by winning their last eight regular-season games, refused to die easily, striking for two runs in the eighth and putting men on first and third in the ninth...
Tommy John, last year's "medical miracle," threw his first shutout of the year yesterday for the Dodgers as the Philadelphia Phillies continued their "roll over and die" act, succumbing to the Los Angeles Dodgers again at home...
...demonstrated its dual concern for patients and workers in the case of St. John of God, a convalescent hospital in Brighton that houses chronic care patients. The hospital was scheduled to be closed for a lack of funds, but doctors estimated that 30 per cent of the patients might die if they were moved. The union took up the case, lobbied against the closing -- and the hospital stayed open. Damman remembers how important the issue was to those involved, and how it felt to help them. "People were furious at the idea their relatives would have to be moved...
...your existence ends when you die, you will treasure life more, and you will try harder to do right and fight for good. You regard this world as something holy," Ferrick told the group...
...vodka flowed, the usual dislocated mutterings that pass for conversation at such gatherings coalesced into a dull roar, and the megaton stereo boomed out a never-ending series of syncopated disco thuds. Occasionally someone would chase a friend through the crowd threatening affectionately to straighten her (his?) toga or die trying, but onlookers just smiled timidly and continued to sip their punch...