Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even his Moslem neighbors in the slums of Karol Bagh district had known and liked Dr. Joshi for his work among the poor. This morning, however, the neighbors were armed with knives and spears. Dr. Joshi came out of the hospital. Someone fired a rifle. The good doctor dropped dead with a bullet in the skull...
...adored him; so did the mangy, half-starved dogs that wandered with him through the steep, cobblestoned streets of mountaintop La Paz. For 20 years, this tall foreigner with the long blond beard had gone about the Indian capital selling pencils. One morning two years ago, he was found dead in the streets-of a heart attack, the coroner said...
Girl: They were all dead...
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle...
...until the first wave hit the beach, then, "the guns on point and island opened, many of those back in the ridge, and a mortar barrage so heavy that those who lived through it said it was the worst they had ever seen." By nightfall there were 1,298 dead & wounded Marines, the beachhead was secure and the diary of the Japanese lieutenant, now dead, was being read at Marine headquarters. But almost two months later, a U.S. colonel was killed by a sniper on Peleliu as he stepped from a plane...