Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early lead and looked like a sure thing--good form, plenty of wind, oarblades flashing--until a gay Charles River excursion boat loomed directly in his path. As he scrambled out of the way, Bruce Preston and Dick Schaal chunked swiftly by to cross the finish line in a dead heat...
With a producer and a narrator he probed into the South Side slums, visited reform schools, penitentiaries, settlement houses; he brought back tape-recorded interviews with underworld characters, memoirs of seasoned convicts, advice from judges and social workers. The most effective talk came from the Dead Enders themselves...
...going." Then he begins a round of activity so strenuous that he often breaks off for a half hour's nap. While he was on a recent trip to New York City, the janitor of Manhattan's Riverside Church was amazed to come upon him stretched out, dead to the world, on one of the pews...
...traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing on, as the Indians may have done, until wind and currents actually cast it on the beach of some island, the Kon-Tiki expedition hopes to reach Tahiti, 750 miles dead ahead...
...bride and groom mirrored in the title are "the Living and the Dead," and all the characters are symbolic archetypes who neurotically bang their heads against walls of their own making. Everything takes place at a tea party in London's Coburg Square...