Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragic death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger at a MIT fraternity party last year, increased attention was paid to the issue of illegal alcohol use during first-year orientation week, said a first-year entryway proctor...
Clinton, our nation's tragic hero, represents the best and the worst of this new order. He has an amazing and useful ability to persuade people to believe in him, but he lacks loyalty both to people and principles, and he cares more about history than he does about progress...
...death of Florence Griffith Joyner on Tuesday was as sudden as it was tragic. The former female track star died at age 38, reportedly of heart failure...
PARIS: So you thought the wrangling over Princess Diana's tragic death was over? It's just getting warmed up. Former bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash that killed the princess in August 1997, launched a lawsuit Wednesday against the Ritz Hotel and the Etoile-Limousine car service for "endangering the lives of others." As TIME reported in August, Rees-Jones and fellow bodyguard Kes Wingfield consider the hotel largely responsible for the tragic accident. Although Rees-Jones is still plagued by amnesia and doesn't remember what happened that fateful night, Wingfield told crash investigators...
...rural, Midwestern feel. In general, however, it is the mass culture of our major cities that is exported via our speedy communications technology to all corners of the country. Kids in the interior of Alaska might now watch Beavis and Butthead rather than learn their native culture and history. Tragic? Yes, but also a by-product of a process I would be loathe to stop...