Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week Charley woke up around 7 o'clock and asked for a cup of coffee. When the nurse returned with it from the kitchen, Charley was dead...
...Adventists' train came to a dead halt after the first few miles. Communist troops of General Chen Yi questioned them, bragged that the next train would not leave for two years. When Nationalist forces appeared, the Reds withdrew. The Warren party hired pushcarts and continued south. Behind them they heard the gunfire of new attacks, but twice each day they paused for prayer...
Communist guns hammered away at Junan's good wall for 23 hours. Then the southeast gates gave way, and Communist troops surged into Junan over the bodies of their dead-machine guns, Loddigs recalled, cracking "like thousands of whips...
...close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King for two on the aisle.) He affably hands callers lighted matches for their cigarettes; but once when a Swedish politician, now dead, stuck a cigar in his mouth, expecting the King to light it for. him, Gustaf just let the match drop on the floor...
Approaching Konitsa, a few shells passed overhead as we bumped along in a Canadian-built truck which the makers would not have recognized, there was so much wire and string holding it together. We lost count of the mine craters and dead disemboweled mules along the roadside...