Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White liberals and many blacks noted that it usually takes several weeks for a person to die from fasting, not a mere seven days. Insisted Biko's widow Ntsiki: "We just do not believe that a man like Steve would die of a hunger strike." In an attempt to answer the doubters, Kruger invited independent pathologists to join in an official autopsy, its results may not be released for several weeks...
...right to say you don't want this coming into your living room. It's a matter of the public interest. Who else besides the churches is going to stand against the effort of television to tear down our moral values and make all of us into mere consumers...
...Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama of his marriages made its way into Lowell's poetry, where he quoted his wives' letters and reproaches, chronicled his infidelities and begged forgiveness. But he portrayed his worldly sorrows with a fervor transcending mere confession. There are, for example, these lacerating lines from "Man and Wife...
Once he gets his car, the proud Soviet owner must endure a nonstop struggle to keep it gassed up and running. Pump stations are few and far between. In the entire U.S.S.R., only 135 service stations are equipped to make even routine repairs; a mere 30 service centers can do major overhauls. Though the Soviet press does not report statistics, auto crashes are numerous, and the fatality rate is high. In some areas, more than a third of the auto accidents result in the death of at least one person. Maybe things will get better in the next generation...
Cronin said he and the other directors also quit because the University refused to provide financial information about the magazine to the directors, making them "mere figureheads...