Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police investigated the shooting, they found no elegant Christie puzzle but the stuff of soap operas: indications of a romantic triangle, a possible suicide plot, and the tragic end of a 13-year relationship...
There have been other tragic air accidents involving American athletes. In 1961, 18 figure-skating stars, bound for the world championships in Prague, were killed in the crash of a Sabena jet near Brussels. In 1970, 30 members of the Wichita State University football team died when their chartered jet hit a mountainside in Colorado. Seven years later, 14 University of Evansville basketball players, returning home from a game in Nashville, died when their DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
...understand the feeling that comes to a Southern Negro on entering Federal Court," Viorst quotes King, "unless he sees with his own eyes and feels with his own soul the tragic sabotage of justice in the city and state courts of the South. The Negro goes into these courts knowing that the cards are stacked against him...But the Southern Negro goes into the Federal Court with the feeling that he has an honest chance of justice before...
...switched his broadcast spots in the last days of the New Hampshire campaign from criticism of Carter to character defenses by his mother Rose and sister-in-law Ethel. Rose Kennedy said her son was devoted to his family and had been "a tower of strength on the tragic occasions of the deaths of my three older sons." Ethel Kennedy described how he has served as surrogate father to her eleven children. Nonetheless, surveys showed that many voters opposed Kennedy mostly because of questions about his personal life and integrity; because of similar doubts, 24% of the Democrats across...
Even the most tragic incident during the strike might not have been averted if all hands had been on duty. When a house just half a block from a closed fire station began to burn, picketing firemen ran to the scene within seconds and helped two police officers lead people to safety. Working firemen from another station arrived within eight minutes. But an explosion sent flames into the top floor and kept rescuers at bay. The bodies of Santana Jackson, 2, and her brother Tommie, 1, were later found in the rubble...