Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of students and family members gathered in Quincy House yesterday to mourn the death of James "Jay" H. Vanderpool '89, who was killed in a boating accident in June...
Interns come to D.C. (they seldom come to "Washington") because of their longstanding interest in the machinery of government. They come because their parents are darlings of the local Congressman's PAC. And they come on pilgrimage to Georgetown, where interns now mourn the passing of the 18-year-old drinking age. (Thank God, though, for Santa's beneficent grandfather...
What is the point of wild animals? If lions and leopards and rhinos and giraffes are merely decorative, or merely a nuisance, then the world will no more mourn them than it mourns the stegosaurus or the millions of buffalo that once wandered across the American plains. Is all animal life sacred? How would one react to the extinction of, say, the rattlesnake...
Last week Patrick returned to Boulder to mourn his parents. The night before, Terrence, 66, and Babe, 63, were shot dead in what appears to have been a robbery attempt at the bar. Two janitors from nearby Helena, both 19, have been charged with the homicides. In Los Angeles, production of Dallas was shut down briefly as a gesture of respect for the Duffys...
...they take their leave of Capitol Hill, they cast a fond eye at the past and discern troublesome aspects of the present.The three Senators seem to mourn the loss of the gentlemanly quality of the old days. They are disturbed by the all-importance of money in the political process and dismayed by the impatience of their younger colleagues. Each is proud, somewhat battered but unbowed. In their faces and in their careers is writ the recent history of the nation...