Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...
...battlefield of St. Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been...
...Department of Agriculture had good news for Europe. To the surprise of some grain experts, the department reported last week that the U.S. had a record 795 million bushels of wheat on hand as of January 1. Thus, said the department, it was "a dead cinch" that the U.S. could meet its goal of exporting at least 450 million bushels during the crop year ending July 1. With 260 million bushels already shipped, the U.S. had only 190 million bushels...
Stalin was back. Since last summer, he had hardly been glimpsed by the public. Rumors had him paralyzed, deposed, dead. When a Swedish cancer specialist flew to Moscow last month, U.S. newspapers started brushing up their Stalin obituaries...
...book was originally scheduled for distribution in May, but the dead-line crept by as belated copy failed to appear Confusion as to the status of veterans in the class also delayed production...