Word: dead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since they both pierced heavy armament. One of them, high on the port quarter detonating a split second after getting inside, ripped gaping holes in side and deck. The other probably decided the battle. It pocked Spee's control tower fair and square. Lights went out. Telephones went dead. The central fire control went out of whack. Some of Spee's best plotters, gunnery officers, observers lay dead or wounded. From then on, orders had to go from less skilled men in secondary control stations. Speaking tubes, portable lights, messages by hand had to be resorted...
Aboard the Exeter as she limped off toward the British base of Port Stanley* in the Falkland Islands, 1,000 miles to the south, were 61 dead men, and 23 wounded. Commodore Harwood was notified by radio that he had been knighted and promoted to Rear Admiral. Ajax and Achilles got off comparatively lightly: between them only eleven dead and eight wounded...
...fired and the Russians did not know where it was. We opened up on them when they got to the middle of the river. They had gone 100 yards and had 100 more to go. All their boats were blown to pieces. The river was full of dead and wounded and drowning men. The drowning ones screamed. Their heavy overcoats and equipment made it impossible for them to swim. We machine-gunned the masses of them and picked them off with rifles. Nearly every man was drowned or shot...
When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going...
Captain Bill Daughaday in the 165 pound class lived up to his reputation for a fast attacking and hard pressing type of wrestling. His display of ability immediately drove his opponent into a dead defense which saved him from being pinned. Ted Schoenberg characteristically tied up his opponent in four minutes, at 128, while Sophomore Ray Stone showed a steady, smooth variety of wrestling at 135, winning by a decision...