Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal of American foreign policy is to establish in the world a just and a lasting peace . . . Our foreign policy in this troubled world can no longer be a passive, a dead-a negative thing. It must be a live and a vital thing. We will wage peace, we will wage peace with all the vigor, and the imagination and the skill and energy with which we waged...
John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
Outside, Rome's air was rife with the aroma of decaying garbage and dead fish. Luigi Longo decided that the party could dispense with his services for a few weeks; he went to a hospital for a hernia operation...
...exploded," runs the legend on Faith's plaque, "the whole house blazed, four floors fell through in front of her. Fire and water all around . . ." Attracted by a glow in the sky, Rector Ross came hurrying back from a trip to Westminster. "The cat and kitten are both dead," said the firemen...
...night of bloody fighting, loyal army troops in tanks and armored cars beat off the landing parties, finally reduced the rebel strongholds. The dead and wounded were carted off in truckloads. Harried by army bombers, the rebel warships set out to sea, finally returned and surrendered. Eight miles away in Lima, meanwhile, armed civilians had seized the telephone exchange, had tried to booby-trap it before being driven...