Word: slain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busies himself mostly with trying to seduce the peasant girl Zerlina, Donna Anna joins forces with her fiancé Don Ottavio and another of the Don's conquests, Donna Elvira, to hound him through a series of comic entanglements, disguises and escapes. When a statue of the slain Commendatore comes to life and challenges the Don, he defiantly invites the statue to supper. Threatened with damnation, he remains unrepentant and true to his nature, thus taking on a perverse grandeur...
...report also contained a new disclosure about Park's final moments. It revealed that two women, who were not identified, had also been present at the dinner where Park was slain and had tried to help the dying President. "Are you all right, Your Excellency?" one of them asked after he was shot and fell to the floor. "I am all right," he is said to have replied. They were his last words...
...streets of La Paz were littered with the bodies of slain protesters, and the new regime was holed up in the presidential palace behind a wall of tanks. Shops and banks were shuttered by a general strike, and a former head of state was demanding an uprising in support of the ousted government. But by Bolivian standards, last week's chaos was all too routine. In a country that has had 188 coups in the past 154 years (and once had three heads of state in a single 24-hour period), the most notable thing about the overthrow...
GREENSBORO, N.C.--The funeral for five civil rights activists slain here last week proceeded peacefully under heavy security on Sunday...
...five slain marchers had been living in Greensboro and attempting to organize the local textile mills...