Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paunchy, beribboned Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan was still ducking the first barrage of dead cats when another came his way. The Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22) last week took up the story of the Allied Molasses Co. of New Jersey. Clumsy Harry Vaughan seemed to be the villain of that tale...
...sweating cops hauled the gunman out, dead, with 18 slugs in his body. The crowds pressed into the yard, surged around the corpse, struggling, pushing and snatching for souvenirs...
...What a spectacle, in the spring, beneath a dead mole!" wrote Jean Henri Fabre. "The horror of this laboratory is a beautiful sight for one who is able to observe and meditate. Let us overcome our disgust; let us turn over the unclean refuse with our foot. What a swarming there is beneath it, what a tumult of busy workers! The Silphae,* with wing cases wide and dark, as though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini,* of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom...
Fabre shunned the "solemnity, nay, better, the dryness, of the schools" in his writing, as he did the dreary probing of dead insects in his studies. To the pedants he said: "You rip up the animal and I study it alive . . . You pry into death, I pry into life...
Small-boy admirers of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History sometimes call it "the dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...