Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typist was talking about Yugoslavia's candidacy for a seat on the Security Council, which came up for a vote before U.N.'s General Assembly last week. The U.S. backed Yugoslavia. Russia, dead set against the Titoist rebels, backed Czechoslovakia. The issue that bitterly divided the Eastern bloc also split the Western camp: Britain had chosen to back the Russian candidate...
Castro and his family had at least survived. In Guatemala City, government officials estimated the dead in the rains and floods at 4,000. Red Cross Official Edward Russell, who led a U.S. relief party from Panama, thought 500 more likely. At least 20,000 were homeless...
...back in 1902, President Eliot surveyed the overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could be stored in a much more compact manner in separate quarters. Naturally every professor was horrified by the thought that a book in his department could be considered "dead," so the idea was dropped for 40 years...
Except for the singing, the picture is a dead loss, and even the singing is marred by Larry Parks' stiff and unconvincing stage mannerisms and his way of ebbing and flowing behind the microphone. Ardent "mammy" fans may be able to endure the plot to hear the master sing--but they will have to be made of sterner stuff than...
...other artists-Raphael, Griinewald, Memling-but do you know what enabled me to free myself from their influence, to satisfy myself with my work? Operational shock! "In 1941 I had a serious operation and almost died. But I survived, and I thought, 'Look, Matisse isn't dead!' With this extra life I could do as I pleased. I could create what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past but it's exactly what I was trying to do 50 years...