Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members parachuted to safety. Two days later a rescue plane taking off from Tampa, Fla. to join the Bermuda hunt spouted smoke and flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead. So far in November two other B-29s had gone down, both because of engine trouble. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg grounded all B-29s whose engines had not been overhauled and modernized...
...Everyone knows this Parliament is dead," cried Winston Churchill in the House of Commons last week...
...play, "The Rat Race," Garson Kanin has made use of some of the ingredients that have made his "Born Yesterday" the huge success it continues to be. And his central character shares many of the same cultural attitudes of Miss Billie ("Drop dead") Dawn. Unfortunately, however, this new play lacks the swift elip of humor of "Born Yesterday," and the story it tells is as sentimental and implausible as that of "Anna Lucasta...
...rural political killing and burning, which frightened the other party's members from voting, Conservatives gained a bloody advantage. Liberals raged that the police fought for the Conservatives. By last week, counting their dead in the thousands, Liberal leaders concluded that they had no chance of a fair election. They withdrew their presidential candidate and ordered their followers to boycott the election. Then, still trying to follow constitutional procedures, a Liberal caucus decided to impeach the President in Congress for failure to keep democratic order, and informed him of its intention. Thirty minutes after learning that, Ospina struck...
...Briant Decker of the Hygiene Department pronounced Harbury dead after all measures, including insulin injections, had been exhausted...