Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked up in her home town of Sapulpa, Okla., seemed to be showing some strain. They had their picture taken beside the Jet Geyser, were disappointed by the poor catches being made by stream fishermen, but cheered up when they saw a bear amble out of a stand of dead spruce. Everybody stayed in the bus. The Governor had been warned that the bears were vicious...
Just when Tom Dewey would announce that he was a candidate, nobody seemed to know. But there was one small occurrence which might indicate that the Governor was pondering the question. When photographers kept him posing for action shots, moving his lips soundlessly at a dead microphone, Tom Dewey finally barked: "I can't keep saying nothing forever...
...knocked a guard sprawling while another burst into the room. There, around a large table, sat Burma's interim Cabinet. Four bursts from the assassin's Sten gun sprayed the room. Most of the ministers were hit in the chest. Six slumped to the floor, dead. Two were mortally wounded. As ministerial blood trickled into a secretary's office next door, the gunmen strolled from the building, got in the jeep, drove away at 5 m.p.h...
...millions of such little defeats, begotten by the great defeat, the mood of Germany today is compounded. The Germans gave the last ounce of their strength to follow men who proclaimed themselves their leaders. They find little strength within themselves now that these leaders are ignominiously dead & gone...
Clutching an antique early American revolver from his historical collection, Lawrence S. Mayo '10, 59-year-old former assciate dean of the graduate school of Arts and Sciences, was found dead by his own hand last Wednesday at his summer home in Wolfeboro...