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Word: epitaphs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Somali people, meanwhile, will fend for themselves. "All of us hoped against hope the Somalis would get their house in order" by now, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Shalikashvili said today in Washington. "They're on their own." TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says the general's epitaph may apply to any risky U.S. humanitarian rescue mission to come: "It was a bleak and compelling testament that there is an end to our patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEACEKEEPERS LEAVE SOMALIA | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

Many Republicans were loath even to repeat the dread word. So it was left to a lowly House staff member who handles welfare policy for the Republican conference to deliver its likely epitaph. Were Republican lawmakers serious about the orphanage option? "If they were, they have buttoned their lips. This thing has been mercilessly crucified," he says. "I would not be surprised if they strike the provision from the bill, because it's given us so much grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm Over Orphanages | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Surely that last sentence deserves to be part of Richard Nixon's epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: May 2, 1994 | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...visited a home he and Love were renting before they moved into the house in which Cobain would end his life. He had decorated one of the walls with this graffito: NONE OF YOU WILL EVER KNOW MY INTENTIONS. It could serve as his credo as well as his epitaph. "Guess we won't be getting the deposit back on the house," he joked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...delivered shortly before he was killed in cold blood in the summer of 1963, Medgar Evers boldly declared that "history has reached a turning point, here and over the world." His words, originally intended as commentary on the plight of the civil rights movement, might serve as a profound epitaph for two crucial events of last week--the conviction of Evers' murderer Byron de la Beckwith by a Mississippi jury and the decision by the Clinton administration to normalize relations with Vietnam...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Finally, the Sixties Are Over | 2/8/1994 | See Source »

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