Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intolerable existence: the nightmare of a botched attempt to end it." So Arthur Koestler wrote in his 1981 preface to A Guide to Self-Deliverance, a suicide manual distributed to the 8,000 members of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society. When the famed 77-year-old writer (Darkness at Noon), who suffered from Parkinson's disease, decided two weeks ago that his life was intolerable, he reportedly swallowed the finely calibrated dose of drugs prescribed by the society. Sharing the fatal potion was his wife Cynthia, 55, who apparently believed she could not endure life without him. When police...
Borgman has been a Spartan devotee for more than six years, and has missed very few of their games during that time. In order to catch this game. Borgman left East Lansing. Michigan early Thursday night in his motor home and reached Massachusetts sometime Friday after-noon. Despite the long hours he has put in on the road. Borgman plans to leave Cambridge after tonight's game...
...German and Italian intervention for Franco in the civil war. He was arrested by the Falangists and subsequently spent three months in solitary confinement in the Central Prison of Seville. From that experience came a book, Spanish Testament, and the germ of an idea for his masterpiece, Darkness at Noon...
...protest, which began at noon on the steps of Widener Library and then moved to OCS-OCL, was held to protest "Reagan's imperialist war drive," and the accompanying recruitment of Harvard students for the armed force. Thomas A. Cowperthwaite `85, a supporter of the Sparticists, said yesterday...
...What at noon yesterday appeared to be Harvard women's hockey's finest accomplishment, later in the day became one of the team's biggest disappointments ever...