Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the crew season, is a fait accompli--with the Varsity well established as the best in the country in the 2,000 meter sprints and its component parts, seattered to indulge in less strenuous, summer aquatic activities, Harvard rowing is not yet a dead issue...
...chairman of the Senate majority policy committee, Taft chiefly determines what bills will reach the Senate floor. For this session, at least, U.M.T. was dead...
Advice. In Laurens, S.C., Harold Crowe, 14, dutifully asked his mother's advice about a plan he had; was told to "just suit yourself, son," promptly picked up his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his sleeping father dead...
...wanted first to recall the struggles of the famous "Three Days of Glory" [when Bourbon Charles X was dethroned] with a march both terrible and despairing, to be played during the procession; then to present a sort of funeral discourse or farewell addressed to the illustrious dead . . . and finally to intone a hymn of glory as an apotheosis, to be played while the eyes of all should be fixed on the tall column [in the Place de la Bastille], crowned by the figure of Liberty...
...killer, shaken with remorse, sank to his knees on the kitchen floor. "Darling," he sobbed, "I loved you. I always loved you." He gathered the "limp little body" in his arms, caressed it, "covered it with kisses." It was too late for kisses. Napoleon, the Murphy family parrot, was dead...