Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Despite this tragic incident, we have no reason to believe that El Salvador's progress in this area is threatened," spokesman Charles Redman said...
More than seven weeks after a series of dry lightning storms ignited a wave of fires across the West, thousands of weary fire fighters remain on the lines, battling a dangerous combination of flame, smoke and exhaustion. So far, at least ten people have died. In one tragic incident, a five-person "helitack" team was dropped by helicopter into a remote spot in Northern California and promptly overrun by fire before it could be rescued. The terrified team members quickly crawled into the fire-resistant shelters strapped around their waists, but 31-year-old D. Lee Cullins, of Arcata, Calif...
...tragic hero in Shakespeare, at its best in Hamlet, is a representation so original that conceptually he contains us and has fashioned our psychology of motives ever since," he said...
Sheriff Fraker, along with others in the area, assumed that the family's dire economic circumstances had pushed Kirk over the edge. It seemed to be yet one more tragic testament to the desperation of so many of the country's debt- burdened family farmers. Said the Rev. Wilburn Steward at a funeral service for the slain family attended by more than 500: "In mankind, there's a breaking point. Something in Kirk had reached that point, and he just snapped...
...stunning book tells of the tragic mishandling of the AIDS epidemic and the $ eerie role of Patient Zero. -- AIDS and circumcision...