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Cornell, sustained by fierce man-to-man defense, did manage to keep the game respectable for the first nine minutes. But at 10:40, the death knell sounded...
...recognize it would remember mainly one thing: his introduction of the newly nominated Michael Dukakis at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Clinton's speech droned on through 33 minutes that seemed about five times as long; the cheers that erupted when he said "in conclusion" appeared to toll the knell of any hopes he might have had to succeed in national politics...
...often split 6 to 3 or 7 to 2 instead of 5 to 4. So, observes 20-year Cambridge resident and activist Bill Cavellini, the loss of a CCA seat to an independent contender like Vellucci or School Committee heavyweight Jane F. Sullivan would not be the death knell for city liberals...
...Albert Murray or James Baldwin? Nope. But they read Don L. Lee's tract on what a black man should be, as though this is different from what any man should be. And so there's this sort of intellectual segregation that I think is absolutely a death knell for our future...
...BUSH is the herald of the New World Order, Gorbachev tolled the death knell for the old one. After 40 years of a rigidly controlled Soviet bloc, he stunned the world by permitting the impermissible: the democratization of Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact...