Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...
...nobody found Langley. Excited people thought they saw him, all over the city. But all the reports were wrong. The police speculated on another theory-that Langley had disappeared before the mysterious telephone call, that Homer had simply died of neglect. But where had he gone? Was Langley dead...
...become a Partisan. Today, at 37, he lives like a petty bourgeois in a one-room apartment, is interested in the film-producing business, loves Dante's Divine Comedy, especially Canto V ("Love led us down to death together: Cain awaits the soul of him who laid us dead...
...week the feast was over and the grim specter of famine lowered over Eire. Newspaper headlines were black with pessimism, as Eire's editors recalled the great Famine of 1847, when a blight had turned Ireland's young potato plants to withered stalks, leaving a million Irish dead of starvation, and sending a million-odd more to the green fields of America.* In that grim year, reported the official Census of Ireland, "starving people lived on the carcasses of diseased cattle, dogs and dead horses." Was this year, Irishmen asked one another, to be another "Black...
...Still on horseback, she digs the beribboned banderillas into the bull's hide. Then she hops on to the ground for conventional cape work. Occasionally Conchita stoops and kisses the bull between the horns. Her explanation: "It is a gesture of triumph, like a rooster crowing over the dead body of its opponent...