Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Later, marchers staged a mock funeral at the John F. Kennedy Building in memory of the 78,000 Salvadorans dead as a result...
...latest adventure of Gang Busters. Each episode opened with a cacophony of sound effects -- marching feet, a burst of machine-gun fire, sirens wailing. The din itself told a story: the mobilization of the forces of good against those of evil; a climactic conflict; finally, the removal of the dead and wounded. Then a stentorian voice blared an all-points bulletin: "Calling the G-men! Calling all Americans to war on the underworld...
...family or friends can imagine but also an interior life richer than even its owner recognizes. Rabbit's undiscriminating curiosity takes in everything, from old songs on the car radio to the crammed titles on a cineplex marquee: HONEY I SHRUNK BATMAN GHOSTBUST II KARATE KID III DEAD POETS GREAT BALLS. These are the fragments he innocently shores against his ruin, the kind of details that historians millenniums hence will cherish. Even his loopiest private opinions carry the whiff of theological profundity. Months into the Bush Administration, Rabbit misses Reagan: "The powerful thing about him as President was that...
...year ago this month, in the midst of a similar budget crisis, TIME's cover, featuring a portrait of George Washington with a large tear running down his cheek, asked the question "Is Government Dead?" The answer was: Very nearly. Twelve months later, if a long-term deficit-reduction package is not put into effect, the answer...
...article also mentions that 13 dead were brought to Mukassed Hospital in Arab East Jerusalem but fails to report that the hospital was tear-gas bombed and half its wards forcefully evacuated by Israeli police. Medical aid was also prevented from reaching the site of the massacre and two nurses were killed when they tried to provide medical care to injured civilians...