Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warden Worthy's rage. When the warden told him to step out of the group, Peewee said, he knew what was coming. He remembered his own words to Worthy: "Boss, I ain't gonna come out because if I come out I'll come out dead." Again & again Worthy yelled at him. Then it happened. Peewee dropped with a -38-cal. slug in his leg, which saved his life as the guards' pump guns poured buckshot into the other convicts...
...owned Burke Air Lines took off from Newark with 31 Puerto Rican passengers. Just before dawn, over the swampy flatlands near Melbourne, Fla., first one, then the second engine failed. The plane smashed through swamp pine, broke open like a melon on the soggy ground. Twenty-one were dead. Fifteen had somehow survived...
...festival of San Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...
Easy Does It. Because of South Africa's gusty winds, Locke developed a low pitch-and-run shot approaching the greens (most U.S. players take a deep undercut that throws the ball high in the air and stops it dead on the green). His tee shots are medium-long but uncannily straight. His putting ("an easy, relaxed swing with the putter blade square to the ball at the impact ... an easy follow-through in the direction of the ball and pin") is as smooth and precise as Willie Hoppe stroking a billiard ball. "It just takes practice...
...propulsion planes sent an experimental test ship through the so-called supersonic wall. In other words ... it was traveling in space ahead of itself. . . . The plane was not heard of again for more than three weeks, when it was found crashed somewhere in lower Montana. The pilot was dead. He was 38, but his teeth and body were those...