Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even before Uncle Joe sat down, the diners had been reminded that Grundyism was all but dead & buried. The reminder came from the newly elected Republican Governor, James Henderson Duff, a protege of his predecessor, now U.S. Senator Edward Martin...
...Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead, and ten passengers were ready for Altoona, Pa. hospitals, still crowded by victims from the Red Arrow...
Midafternoon, the two sentries patrolling the entry through the barbed wire to Goldsmith House were startled by a small explosion in the rear of the building. Then bullets whizzed around them. One soldier fell, dead. A truck rumbled through the wire opening. Covered by a spray of machine gun and rifle fire from nearby buildings, three men dashed to the truck. Out of it and into the club's door and open windows they heaved suitcases. In a moment there was a heavy explosion. Hours later, when the rubble had been combed, the British announced the toll: 16 killed...
Hertzog will have more than alligators to worry about. The night after the peace meeting, Guachalla and Hertzog followers rioted in front of the Congress building. One Hertzog man fell and his fellows, thinking him dead, paraded through the streets with the body to cry shame upon the Guachallistas. Later they found the victim was only wounded. He died late that night in the emergency hospital...
...mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...