Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others awakened to experience the same awful choking sensation. By morning, as the fourth day of fog began, more were dead and scores of people were complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma or heart trouble. But they were puzzled about its effects. Victims seemed to suffer partial paralysis of the diaphragm. Nothing but oxygen seemed to bring relief...
...hungry Manhattan, the 10% rule of thumb was as dead as the nickel fare. Three trade associations threw some light on the going rates: 15% on restaurant checks; 20% to 25% on cab fares; 25? for bellhops (two bags). A shine was 15?-plus...
...Brussels Treaty nations, plus the U.S. and Canada, were getting ready to bring out into the open some plans for a North Atlantic Defense Pact (see CANADA)-under which the U.S. and Canada might start a new flow of military lend-lease to Western Europe. Otherwise, matters were on dead center for a few days...
...Republican Senate dropped stone-cold dead in the electoral market three days ago, and nobody paid it much mind more exciting things were going on. Even before Tuesday, the GOP 51 to 45 Senatorial margin was pretty clearly in for a slice, if not obliteration. It was obliterated, all right, for not only did the Democratic Party hold all of its own seats, but it knocked off nine held by the Republicans. The new Senate line-up is a fat 54 to 42 for the President's party...
...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...