Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Sunday a gaunt, austere figure with sideburns, long frock coat and tight, narrow trousers leaves his home in Paris' Latin Quarter, crosses the Seine and heads for Père-Lachaise Cemetery. For hours he strolls among the dead marshals, statesmen and courtiers of the dead Napoleonic Empire; he never fails to pause before the tombstone of the Comtesse de Girardin, the greatest beauty of the Little Corporal's court. Jean Auguste Louis Armand Fèvre, by profession a dealer in rare books, by appearance a bourgeois gentleman of Napoleon's day, has chosen to live...
...real sense of what sovereignty means-perhaps better than anyone else in the world. We don't have sovereignty in the old-fashioned sense, but we do have freedom. Plenty of nations today have sovereignty without freedom. Our people know that the old-style colony is a dead thing. But they also know that there's no sense turning colonies into little nations; that would be like rebuilding two-wheel carriages into four-wheel carriages-in this world of airplanes...
...available, he said, it might be possible to correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only about 1,200, most of them taken from the newly dead, have passed through the bank (actually, a household-type electric refrigerator) since it was organized five years...
With both players exhausted, Freeman still had uncanny control of his serve, a shot that lobs skyward for 30 feet or so, then plummets to earth so dead on the base line that opponents frequently let it drop thinking it will be outside-and it almost never is. The score in the third set crept to 15-all. After winning one point, Freeman put what remaining strength he had left into a final smash. Ooi Teik Hock went down...
...facts of life in the new Met assemblage was a Roman copy of a 5th Century B.C. Greek bronze, The Wounded Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite her wounds, and a fine-tuned example of physical fitness. Unlike the stiff, staring images of earlier cultures, she looked alive and in motion...