Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...want to the overwhelming oppression of white society. The letters are grim, determined, their only humor an irony about failings. They are composed in a style that is all steel, spare, hard, the kind of style one imagines that comes from being always menaced, from knowing that you may die any minute-a blow from behind from another inmate, a shot from a guard's rifle-from knowing that your "privilege" of writing letters may be revoked at the guard's discretion, that you may drop without a trace into the cesspool of the prison system, of the hole, isolation...
...cross she is-but she had better use "words more polite than those which first came to your mind." Successful or not, she should remember that despite what children imagine, "angry thoughts cannot harm anyone"-nor can wishes, common to children, that a parent get sick and die...
...corridors, particularly between Boston and Washington. Some long runs that draw varying amounts of patronage-for example, the Northeast to Florida, Chicago to New Orleans, and New York to Chicago -would presumably be continued. But a substantial number of the nation's 383 intercity trains are likely to die, including such little-used ones as the thrice-weekly Harrisburg-Buffalo run, or the Salt Lake City-Butte, Mont., runs...
...source of her tragedy in the only moment when her resolve wavers: "I want to go back home and feel all that lonely grief again. I miss it so much already." She recovers her imbalance quickly. She has been life's victim long enough. By deciding to die violently, she has achieved the illusion of control over her own fate...
Connolly suffered from a bad cramp in the last mile or so. "It was the worst I've ever had. I thought I was going to die." he explained. Meanwhile, Foye moved past Steve Shirey and Bob Varsha, both of Dartmouth, into seventh place, where he finished...