Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Senate wrangled in disorganized confusion. Members were tired of night sessions, tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
William R. Polk '51, brother of the dead reporter is attending the trial in Salonika Greece...
...more guns than Costa Ricans knew they had. The staccato poc-poc of tommy guns mingled with the belch of mortars and the harsh slam of 50-calibre machine guns. The fort and surrounding houses were riddled. By the time the last rebels gave up, an estimated seven were dead, a score wounded...
...subject of his big righthander, Johnny Sain, Manager Billy Southworth of the Boston Braves may be prejudiced, but he is dead serious. "He's going to be recognized as one of the greats," says Southworth. Certainly, Johnny Sain's pitching arm was the biggest reason the Braves had for hoping to win their second National League pennant in a row. Last week in Bradenton, Fla., with the opener three weeks away, the arm was run through its first nine-inning test of the season...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...