Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kathleen were big, blowy and as like as two sisters, but there was nothing homey or lovable about either of them. Christened by Army weathermen and by the Red Cross, Kathleen was a typhoon* which last week rolled over Japan's main island of Honshu, leaving hundreds dead or homeless, and Emma was a hurricane which took two ferocious licks...
Florida officially totted up a casualty list of twelve dead and seven missing. In addition, a Negro was shot to death by a white man who said he caught him looting a windowless Miami liquor store...
...Mississippi-Louisiana toll: at least 100 dead or missing...
John Santo, back-of-the-throne boss of the C.I.O.'s powerful Transport Workers Union, sat last week like Gilbert & Sullivan's Baronet of Ruddigore watching the ghostly march of his dead ancestors. In a drive against alien Reds, the Government was trying to prove that alien-born John Santo was a Communist and subject to deportation. As witnesses against him the Government had rounded up a batch of repentant Communists...
...like a British weekend, is casual, slow-paced and elastic. If the script calls for a minute of silence or three hours of steady bagpiping, the BBC's Third Program* (TIME, Nov. 4) is only too happy to oblige. British broadcasters and British listeners have no horror of dead air or of overtime. In the U.S., such dawdling is unthinkable: a production is adaptable to radio only if it can be hustled through on an hour, a half-hour or a 15-minute schedule, with carefully timed pauses for the sponsor's plugs...