Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...promises and performance makes his "credibility" a principal issue. The particular problem that has received the greatest attention from both men is one that preoccupies the voters: narcotics. New York City is the acknowledged heroin capital of the nation, and more of the city's teen-agers die from drug abuse than from any other single cause...
...sobriquet "Adamant Adam" while he was Robert Kennedy's premier speechwriter. But when a drunk at a construction site baited the dovish Walinsky about his feelings for "the boys in Viet Nam," the questioner got a snarling reply: "They're too damn good to die there...
...Israeli-occupied Jerusalem, 75,000 Arabs paraded through the old city. In Arabic they chanted, "Nasser will not die," and to make
When Mohammed died, his first caliph, Abu Bakr, told the Prophet's mourning followers: "If you worship Mohammed, Mohammed has died. But if you worship Allah, he is alive and never will die." Throughout the Middle East, a variation of that aphorism was broadcast over Arab radios last week: "If you worship Gamal, Gamal is dead. But if you worship the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, they are alive and will never die." Nasser had many ideas, not all of them worth preserving. The future of the Middle East may thus depend on which the Arab world jettisons and which...
...into its crypt. The face was carefully turned toward Mecca, 800 miles away across the Red Sea. Nasser's soul, as far as devout Moslems were concerned, was already with God. He had succumbed on the anniversary of Mohammed's ascent into heaven, an auspicious occasion on which to die...