Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous mass of tropical air drifted up the Mississippi Valley-like a soldering iron being run slowly up a dowager's spine. While chickens fell dead and pavements shimmered like cookstoves, the hot air spread east and west. Soon it was hot from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. And it stayed hot-hot as Zamboanga in mango-picking time...
Greater Responsibility. Up until the confrontation at the Commodore there had been nothing to choose between the accusations of Whittaker Chambers and the indignant denials of Alger Hiss. Now, on one pivotal question, Chambers had turned out to be dead right and Hiss to be dead wrong...
Stones at the Chairman. On the conference's last day, Cannon made a statement. Said he: "When we came here, the Danube River was dead to international trade ... As we leave here, there will be no change...
...hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat. Passionately one girl in the crowd implored: "Let's hope her heartbeats stop soon...
...delighted, left her everything when she died. But then came Catholic Aunt Rose Anne to invoke the wrath of the church, curse her roundly and give her a clout besides. Poor, sweet, ignorant Bridie, half demented by repeated bouts of intolerance, rushed wildly out of the house, was found dead in a boghole next...