Word: croak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove to be the most popular approach to death: treating it as a new civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...
...Crab loves people. Once he's grabbed you with his pincers, he won't let go until you croak...
...those who have seen the sunburned 4-H boys in the pens with their heifers and listened to the croak of a village valedictorian unawed by God or science, there is no mystery in their consuming urge for public service and their special sense of selfimportance. They are the ones who listened to and believed the Scripture lessons about helping each other and rejecting materialism. They learned the satisfaction of personal excellence and leading others. They are all now on the threshold of an adventure that not even they imagined back in Mitchell, Doland, Shirkieville, Everett, Rumford and Ida Grove...
...roofs of the city, prostitutes aboard pedicabs come silently out of the shadows like butterflies beckoning for attention. The bars close early and the streets are soon deserted. At Madam Chum's, a few bleary-eyed Westerners smoke away their despair for 600 per pipe of opium. Geckos croak in the darkness. The city is silent. What is going...