Word: knell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RABAT: The prostate cancer that killed Mobutu Sese Seko here Sunday night was the one that sounded the death knell for his Zairean dictatorship, according to TIME Nairobi correspondent Peter Graff. "In the last year, he became physically sick, incapable of functioning as a leader ... That's when his people began to say things about Mobutu they never dared say before, and when his own army refused to fight for him. It was his sickness that did it. He ruled for 32 years and was ousted in seven months...
...novelist who sits in Da Silvano restaurant every day, same window table, smoking Marlboro Lights. "The federal witness-protection program is welfare for rats," Nick Tosches says, referring to the low-life grunts who have testified, "and if they convict Gigante through these nefarious means, it's a death knell for this neighborhood. You used to be able to leave your doors and windows open around here. For years Gigante has been a benevolent presence, and I'd rather have him as a neighbor than any cop in the Sixth Precinct...
...line buried toward the end of Act Three, John tells Carol, "And now I owe you a debt." That line is essentially John's death knell: an admission of obligation, of defeat at the hands of a student, explodes his entire notion of self. Davidson missed the line completely and others like it that show us who John is or might have been. Instead, he favored the longer speeches, merely growing louder as the play hurtled forward. With no real foundation on which to base his portrayal, he reduced an intricate part to a pathetic boor...
...adoption of the new application sounds the death knell for the Harvard application, but the old form lives on in the memories of administrators, professors and students who remember filling...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared health care reform dead for this session of Congress, joining Republicans who rang the death knell last week -- and blaming them, too. The Maine Democrat on Friday made a last-ditch effort to round up a filibuster-proof 60 votes for a moderate health package, but the GOP and a few opposing Democrats held firm. Mitchell also ignored a group of liberal lawmakers who wanted a stripped-down reform package that would cover children. The next chapter: November, when the Election Day blame game begins...