Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayflower Hotel. The callers were admitted by Kansas' 76-year-old Senator Clyde Reed, ushered in with a cautious admonition: "Now boys, this is not a drinking party." The warning was unnecessary. The men who gathered in the handsome, antique-filled room had come with a dead serious purpose...
...Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...
...London, Abdullah denied that his father was dead, cryptically added: "Conditions are unsettled and it's understandable that some extravagant reports might come from Yemen." At week's end, the secret of Yahya's mortal status and worldly successor was still hidden behind the mud-brick walls of his capital...
...written for Yehudi. Yehudi was going to play it again this week, and this time wanted the critics to be prepared. Bartok, hearing Yehudi play one of his compositions two years before he died, told him: "I thought works were only played that way long after the composers were dead...
...memorial is best to commemorate the war dead, it must serve them," contends the committee's letter. In their opinion this end is to be most readily achieved by "building better Harvard men" and better citizens instilled with the ideals for which the war dead fought and gave their lives...