Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Things They Carried returns O'Brien to Viet Nam through a series of sketches and stories that can be loosely read as an impressionistic novel about a man's need to attach human faces to his grief. The narrator, like the author, is a 43-year-old writer named Tim. O'Brien camouflages autobiography with fiction but is not shy about personalizing his intentions. "I want you to feel what I felt," he tells the reader. "I want you to know why a story- truth is truer sometimes than a happening-truth...
...many years it concentrated on marksmanship and gun safety. Fending off gun control did not become an important N.R.A. concern until the 1930s, when Congress passed a law restricting sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Then came the 1960s and the grim wave of political assassinations. In the grief and anger that followed the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned interstate and mail-order shipment of firearms and ammunition and permitted federal inspection of gun dealers...
...Azerbaijan last week, first crossing the Caspian Sea by ferry to Turkmenistan, then flying on to Moscow or the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Many of those who landed in Moscow huddled around the building that houses Armenia's representational office, transforming the quiet street into an encampment of shock, grief and rage. As a refugee put it, "What civilized country would allow its own people to be murdered...
...role of tragic victim with the boyish charm of a Ted Bundy, the dazed innocence of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald. His farewell letter to his wife, composed in his bed at Boston City Hospital and read at the funeral by his best friend, was a tour de force of grief. "You have brought joy and kindness to every life you've touched. Now you sleep away from me. I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine." Many at the crowded funeral at St. James Church in Medford, the very church where he had been married four years...
...police. They all grieved publicly over Carol and the baby. Matthew even helped carry Carol's coffin to her grave. The news of Charles' suicide initally elicited ^ sorrow from his in-laws, who had been expecting him for dinner that very night. They thought he did it out of grief. Mrs. DiMaiti had planned to cook chicken because it would be easier on Charles' mangled intestines...