Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...optimistically hoped that the moral force of the U.N. would be enough to accomplish partition. It was now clear that if the U.N. decision was to be anything but a dead letter, the commitment would have to be backed up with force...
...engines had exploded, a piece of flying metal had killed a steward, and preparations were being made to ditch it, if necessary, 130 miles out at sea. Coast Guard planes began a frantic search. After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop...
...wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
...want to talk to anybody alive or dead," declared talkative Bernard Shaw. It was half of his answer to Gallup pollsters asking Britons which of their famed countrymen (dead or alive) they most wanted to talk to. "If I craved for entertaining conversation by a first-class raconteur," Shaw went on, "I would choose Oscar Wilde."* In the poll, Shaw himself ranked 27th. Most-sought-after...
...clear that Peter Grimes, although he has committed no crime, is as doomed as a character in a Kafka novel. The opera opens with Peter facing an inquest-indeed a trial-in the village hall. He has just returned from a fishing voyage with his boy apprentice dead. The inquest absolves him, but with sinister warnings that it had better not happen again, and the townspeople gossip about him. Peter rages: "Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head . . . let me stand trial. Bring the accusers to the hall...