Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominated and elected I could not, in these times, refuse to take the inaugural oath, even if I knew I would be dead in thirty days...
...Democracy we enjoy the right to believe in different religious creeds or in none, so can American artists express themselves with complete freedom from the strictures of a dead artistic tradition or political ideology. While American artists have discovered a new obligation to the society in which they live, they have no compulsion to be limited in method or manner of expression...
...long July 4 weekend. By the millions, other U.S. citizens swarmed out of their cities and headed for a holiday. Some 30,000,000 cars jockeyed for space on the roads. This week, mosquito-bitten and sunburned, Americans were back at work and the nation counted its 553 holiday dead: 163 drowned, 271 killed on the highways, 119 dead in other accidents...
With the rebels either dead or safely back in the stockade, Calapan joined the rest of the Philippines in a gala round of oratory, parades and holiday cockfights in honor of the first anniversary of Philippine independence. In Manila, President Manuel Roxas discussed his Government's political and economic progress. Said Roxas: "Organized resistance has almost ceased." To give force to his words, a battalion of Hukbalahaps, pro-Communist guerrilla fighters who have waged constant war against the government, marched past the reviewing stand...
...England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England's ecclesiastics, historians and architectural esthetes were dead against it. The plan was abandoned; Sir Giles resigned...