Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died in 1938. He had promised that she would one day be buried in Morocco. But when the Riff leader walked ashore, the coffin had stayed aboard. This week Katoomba and coffin were on their way to France. It seemed likely that the angry French would hold the dead mother as a hostage for the too lively...
...like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead-grey monuments make the city look like a big graveyard...
History-and Hollywood film biographies-are full of painters who scrabbled for a living in obscure garrets, and became famous only when dead. But history and Hollywood pass over the many painters admired by all the world who later disappeared because their art lacked lasting power or because a generation lost interest...
...arterial gallingly named Roosevelt Road). After one recent commuting trip on which he noted that the crows seemed to be getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this pest...
...turned two circles and crashed into the outside retaining wall. Oil from its wounded motor oozed downward across the speedway but there was no pace slackening; other cars splashed through the puddle. Within a few minutes, the loudspeakers announced that William ("Shorty") Cantlon, driver of the orange car, was dead...