Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this thing shocked a lot of guys into realizing that unionism is more than a matter of nickels and dimes," he said, "and that personal interests and prejudices aren't as important as they seem." Sitting at the bedside, Jimmy Wechsler noted that Reuther's face was dead white, that he paused from time to time as the pain grew acute. The reporter remembered, nervously, that he had been instructed to leave after 15 minutes. But Reuther asked him to stay on because "this thing doesn't hurt so much when I talk...
...Corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...
Yesterday's harried "freethinkers" produced a flood of radical literature, most of which is now as dull and dead as the social grievances it attacked. Of the countless contributors to this literature, Thorstein Veblen is one of the very few who does not give the impression of being just a cut off the old red jelly...
...night many years before, he is naturally startled to learn that she has loved him all her life, that he had a son, and that he has provided the plot for an extremely complicated movie. Incidentally, the letter starts: "By the time you get this I will probably be dead," which is enough to shake a stronger man's nerve. His conscience hurts him, so he goes out to fight the duel with her husband from which he had been planning to run before he read the letter. The moral of this decision is not quite clear, but one gets...
That night there was a council of war in the Arcaro home. Ma was willing to let Eddie give horse racing a try; Pa was dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence...