Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, teletypes clacked in all police stations, ordering flags flown at half-mast. Signal gongs in all firehouses began beating out the 5-5-5-5 rhythm which heralds the death of firemen and of great public servants. Newspapers began spilling off the presses with the black headline: LAGUARDIA DEAD...
...Major Mario Salabarria, 34-year-old head of the Havana police's special investigations department, it had been a bad week. Salabarria was in jail, charged with murder. The man he had set out to get was dead, but a hero, and the Army was in control of the police department...
When Cuban Army tank and armored-car crews stopped the shooting three hours later, Tro and three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...
Everybody was swapping congratulations. Somebody dropped a dead mouse down somebody's back. Said solemn Joe DiMaggio, veteran of seven World Series: "These celebrations are all alike-but I can stand them." Outside of Joe DiMaggio, the quietest fellow in all the champagne-splashing was the man who did most to win the pennant-Manager Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris...
...Campus," or "Come home, son, come home," is a little hard to take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast the hero's wedding into a sentimental colossity...