Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
...years this casual question got casual answers: the Fields did not seem to be leading very remarkable lives. Last week the question led the U.S. Department of State down misty avenues to a dead end of mystery...
Shades of Dunkirk. Explained one of his lieutenants: "The Old Man's dead against showing too much target for them to attack us. Instead, he's set on seeking out the cracks in their armor and probing home his steel wherever he can penetrate." In accordance with their platform, The Right Road for Britain (which has sold 2½ million copies since it was published last summer-TIME, Aug. 1), the Tory leaders called for a reduction of taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt...
...Solid Ground." The object of such honors, perhaps more concentrated than any other composer living or dead has ever received on a single occasion, was a man of whom one Parisian wrote: "Chopin can best be denned as a trinite charmante. His personality, his playing and his compositions were in such harmony that they could no more be separated than can the features of one face...
...Faculty went right down the line with his final recommendations--to make the program a permanent and increasing part of the College curriculum. He guided what might have become a rambling and ill-organized group of courses through the years when a determined segment of the Faculty was dead against G.E.; he left the program vigorous and expanding...