Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the trips looked like just a good time at the taxpayers' expense. But at least one was dead serious. Under the leadership of Massachusetts' Representative Christian Herter, who has made himself an expert on foreign relief problems, 19 Congressmen picked from 15 regular House committees will sail for a firsthand look at foreign needs and potentialities under the Marshall plan...
...desperately ill with peritonitis. Sauerbruch barked: "It will cost you $1,000." He examined the boy and growled: "This is almost hopeless; it's throwing money away." He was prevailed upon to operate anyway. Emerging from the operating room, Sauerbruch snapped: "Not a chance; he will be dead by morning. Please give me the check immediately." Next morning the patient sat up for breakfast...
Nick of Time. In Point Pleasant, W.Va., despondent Victor Bradshaw tried to stab himself to death, got the knife part way in, fell down dead of a heart attack...
Doctor Bill. In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, a witch doctor went to the police station for help in collecting a bill from a client who "asked me to call a lion to kill his enemy. I did. The enemy is dead...
...Writers my generation mostly dead except Dos Passes, going very good with Number One. Robert Penn Warren writing very well. First rate books by new writers that have read are All Thy Conquests, Alfred Hayes-Never Come Morning, Nelson Algren-The Big Sky, A. B. Guthrie Jr.-The Assault, Allen R. Matthews...