Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under one Colonel Sami Hennawi, which led the putsch and seized power. Another report was that Zaim was shot down at his house when he tried to hurl a hand grenade at his captors and that 18 others died with him. Whatever the truth, Zaim and his premier were dead. Damascus also heard that Zaim had refused a blindfold with the words: "I lived bravely and I want to die bravely...
...class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
Counterfire. From the Post's editorial page last week, Wechsler took dead'aim at Carter's thicket and laid down his counterfire. Said Wechsler: "If he is saying that things are bad all over and that Southern prejudice has Northern parallels, we are disposed to agree . . . [But Carter] is really suggesting that we avert our eyes from the Southland because evil things also occur up North, just as the apologists for Soviet tyranny tell us we dare not attack their slave-system until we have ended oppression in Dixie...
...burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
...Dead Cherokee. Essentially, the show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...