Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scenery and costumes are magnificent to look at. Working only with frames and curtains, some furniture and a few dead tree limbs, Fletcher has achieved a striking effect...
...Saturday's CRIMSON), I have "read thoughtfully again Lincoln's Gettysburg Address." Whatever thoughts Abraham Lincoln's had on the subject of War Memorials cannot dedicate...consecrate...hallow this ground...It is for us, the living rather, to be dedicated...to the great task remaining before us...that these dead shall not have died in vain...
...last week a woman was found unconscious in a hotel room, with an empty box of sleeping pills beside her. She was pronounced "apparently dead" by an ambulance attendant. After the attendant had gone, a policeman noticed perspiration on the "dead" woman's brow, gave her artificial respiration and kept her alive. At week's end her condition was "fair and improved." All 13 of New York City's municipal hospitals decided to send interns, rather than attendants, on ambulance calls...
...DEAD...
...reporter asked for a typewriter he had seen buried in the office, and Heiskell crustily denied that it was there. A janitor dug in and found not one machine but six. "If they'd dug a little deeper," cracked a newsman, "they'd probably have found a dead reporter...