Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital, where he was pronounced dead, he was given back his name: his billfold showed that he was Laurence Duggan, 43, of suburban Scarsdale. The routine of police process widened out, reaching for the rest of the story. He was an educated man (Exeter and Harvard '27). He had a wife and four children. He had spent 14 years in the State Department, nine as head of the Latin American Division, four as adviser on political relations. Since 1946 he had held a $15,000-a-year job as president of the Carnegie-financed Institute of International Education, which...
...Duggan's defense, praised his patriotism. So did dozens of other U.S. citizens. The Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow (who is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education) spoke bitterly over the air after Duggan's death: "A dead man's character is being destroyed . . . Some of the headlines might as well have read, 'Spy Takes Life...
...after the execution, many Japanese went to shrines to pray. It was hard for a Westerner to learn what they really felt. Some said the Japanese were not praying for the dead war lords, but for peace in the world. It was no less difficult to learn the final attitudes of the condemned. Tojo left a poem...
...minute after they entered the chamber, four traps were sprung at once. Then the other three were led up the 13 steps, and hanged until dead...
...abroad produce delightful travelogues, a father who often yearns for solitude. He is also drinking more than he used to, as a result of his failure as a novelist, but he is raising his standard of living as a result of his popular "success." In short, he is a dead duck...