Word: reaper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political persona, the patrician who ran a pallid third in last month's Iowa caucuses and staggered into New Hampshire facing extinction, the bland campaigner who ended one debate by apologizing for his lack of eloquence -- this consensus choice as political nebbish suddenly transformed himself into the prim reaper who could not be denied. Bush last week harvested victories from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Oklahoma and Texas. His weakest rival, Jack Kemp, promptly quit the Republican contest. Pat Robertson, another ostensible threat on Bush's right flank, collapsed in a puddle of his failings as a candidate, finishing third...
Afterward, she met the media and thanked them for not sticking her with the obvious nickname "The Grim Reaper...
...November of 1983, a speech by Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 was interrupted repeatedly by shouts and chants from the audience. Members of the audience threw two balloons full of red dye at Weinberger, but the liquid missed the Secretary. Twelve students dressed in grim-reaper robes stood silently throughout the speech and pointed at Weinberger...
...Atlantic Reaper, a fishing boat out of Admiral's Beach, Nfld., was about six miles from land last week when crew members noticed unusual blips on the radar screen. Captain Gus Dalton changed course to investigate and soon came upon two lifeboats packed with passengers. Realizing that he could not squeeze all of them onto his 55-footer, Dalton radioed two other fishing craft in the area. The three boats loaded up and headed for the provincial capital of St. John's. On the way they met a Canadian fisheries patrol boat, which took on the 146 men, four women...
...other Canadian fishing boats, the Mary Teresa and Betford, joined the Atlantic Reaper and reported they had picked up 150 survivors, Whitehead said. He reported the Atlantic Reaper initially radioed that 147 people had been rescued, but the figure was placed at 150 following additional reports from the two other vessels. Those reports said the survivors were cold and hungry...