Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nile, translator of The Arabian Nights, soldier, swordsman and linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most intrepid traveler sets off to find the source of the river and to learn who is responsible for his situation...
...OVER BUT THE SHOUTING. "The Voters of Illinois," concluded Chicago Tribune Political Editor F. Richard Ciccone, "left no avenue of hope open for the man [Kennedy] who was almost everybody's hope only six months ago." Wrote Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson: "To suggest that Carter still may stagger while Kennedy somehow miraculously rises defies all reality...
...second time that evening I knew I was going to drown ... I remembered being swept down toward the direction of the Edgartown Light and well out into the darkness." He eventually reached Edgartown but, he said, was so exhausted by the struggle that he could do nothing but stagger the few blocks to his hotel and fall into...