Word: slain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...
...attempt by a woman who claims to be his daughter and wanted $24 million to keep quiet. She was arrested and then released on bail, but the episode seemed to provoke Cosby to talk. He called Dan Rather. During their 2 1/2-hour interview Cosby said he felt that his slain son Ennis wanted him to return to work. "His spirit from there wouldn't allow us to walk off and be anything other than he wants," said Cosby. He conceded that he'd had an affair with the woman whose daughter was trying to blackmail him, but said he didn...
...chuckles I got out of that were nothing compared with the belly laughs I experienced when Connerly chose Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to announce the creation of a new organization to take his anti-affirmative-action show on the road--in honor of the slain civil rights leader. "Dr. King personifies the quest for a color-blind society," Connerly explains, "and I felt that it would be a great symbol to give birth to an organization that wants the nation to resume that journey on the birthday of the man who symbolizes it." Connerly claims...
...virtual American family has suffered a real death. The feelings will be--and already are--peculiarly complicated. When I first heard the news on CNN, I suffered a momentary mental lag, an instant of ontological puzzlement: Had a human being been slain, or a sitcom character? How was Dr. Huxtable--Bill Cosby, rather--going to handle this one? How would he break such searing news to Phyllicia Rashad, his TV wife, and how could the tragedy ever be resolved in under 30 minutes...
...brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother. She rarely smiles...