Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...events have no doubt spurred much of the debate in the state legislature. Jeffrey Curley's tragic kidnapping and murder inspired Governor A. Paul Cellucci and others to press particularly hard for death penalty legislation. Likewise, the somewhat dubious conviction of Louise Woodward for second-degree murder gave legislators pause over voting to allow the state to put an individual to death...
Fertility experts are worried that all the attention being paid to the birth of seven healthy septuplets against monumental odds will convince others that such births are safer and less tragic than they so often turn out to be. Nevertheless, while she never set out to have septuplets, Bobbi has no doubt that she did the right thing...
...likely that happy, if struggling, families like the Dilleys outnumber tragic ones like the Dionnes. But if the McCaugheys need a reminder of what awaits them, a recent study provides it. According to Australian researchers, it takes 198 hours a week to run a household and care for triplets. That's 30 more hours than there are in a week...
...reassured: "These people don't have to know each other. They click on the same Websites, they listen to the same music, they know the code." Last week, he surmises, they began a "game of chicken" with city authorities. Denver residents fear the game could take more tragic turns before it's over...
...History of World War II (Viking; 628 pages; $50), was first published in 1966 with text by the late New York Times correspondent C.L. Sulzberger and photographs culled from international archives. It was an elegant memorial to the war's unimaginable destruction, anguish and fortitude. Ambrose furthers that tragic sense in his revision, which includes updated material on code breaking, Japanese war crimes and Hitler's atom-bomb project...