Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...identified the dead as Alberto Stino, a Colombian-born American; Dimitra Stylianopoulu, 52, a Greek; her daughter, Maria, 25; and her infant granddaughter. The baby's name and age were not given...
...wrote as she was approaching her 90s. She had been nine months old, sitting among white pillows outside her parents' farmhouse in the wheat country near Sun Prairie, Wis.; the Civil War had ended less than 25 years before, the Ford was not invented, and Picasso was six. That infant memory of brightness would irradiate her work for the best part of a century, leaving no doubt, when Georgia O'Keeffe died last week in Santa Fe at the age of 98, that one of the great American lives had ended...
...privilege, a student of Harvard University, someone who, in my prejudiced mind, I suppose, should have known better. And yet, although I was still angry, I began to feel I could understand his attitude. This student was so remote from the Vietnam experience that he was only an infant when the evening news included body counts as a regular feature--like the weather. And with reality so remote, who wouldn't prefer to think of Sylvester Stallone as the one with courage, as the real hero, and those (now very wet) demonstrators as shams. Stallone was "Rocky", the vets were...
...rest have either fled over the borders to Iran and Pakistan or have been exterminated through Soviet chemical warfare attacks, scorched-earth tactics which have resulted in widespread famine, indiscriminate carpet bombing, and mass executions. One out of every two refugees in the world today is an Afghan; infant mortality caused by malnutrition reached an appalling 85 percent last winter...
...finds that death still comes sooner for blacks and some other minorities than it does for whites. According to the study, of the approximately 60,000 "excess deaths" reported among blacks each year, 18,181 were attributed to heart disease and stroke, 8,118 to cancer, 6,178 to infant mortality, 2,154 to cirrhosis and 1,850 to diabetes...