Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever inner agonies had assailed 21-year-old Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
...people of nine states surveyed the damage. An estimated 52 were dead, and hundreds injured. Rain-swollen rivers flooded valleys in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania. Wreckage littered the Midwest landscape for a thousand miles...
...Jews seemed dead set on fighting. The Jewish Agency announced that it would proceed with the establishment of a Jewish government in Palestine. Said the Agency Executive Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "It is we who will decide the fate of Palestine. . . . The Jewish state exists because we defend...
...Race to the Dead. The Berlin city authorities had urged all political parties to take part in ceremonies commemorating the "March Dead." But the Communist-run Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) balked. It wanted its own ceremony. The authorities went ahead, ordered a granite monument. It was to be unveiled at 8 a.m., so that the S.E.D. would not be able to get to the cemetery first...
...outer limit and since they glow under ultraviolet light, they neatly outline the tumor. The porphyrins could, Dr. Figge found, carry zinc on their journey; that indicated that they might also carry isotopes.* One drawback to porphyrins as isotope carriers: they also have an affinity for the necrotic (dead) parts of a cancer, where radioactivity would do little, if any, good...