Word: dead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college and his party affiliation at that time was Republican. But, he explains, "in 1933 there were stirring events in those times, and that was what made me a Democrat. I voted for Franklin Roosevelt five times; four times when he was alive and once after he was dead...
Again there was a dead silence, and Dudley could feel the sweat on his brow increase. His left hand became clammy, and soon her right became clammy. It was this that made Dud sure that they were meant for each other. Still he was stuck for words...
Through the night the dormitory lights burned, and from them dead bugs fell to the three-piece mattresses below. The women were in distant tents. Married couples could assure meeting in the confusion of the following day only by arranging a time and place in advance. The ultimate result was hardly the intellectual repartee in a Vienna winecellar for which Americans had hoped...
...probes on, the proofs of Nerone's possible sainthood mount-his conversion and surrender to God, his healing miracles, his selfless care of the villagers, his martyrdom at the hands of the Communists. But Blaise Meredith, brimming with a new-found humanity, cares less and less about the dead saint, trembles instead for the living sinners...
...bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above all else. When her first daughter, a premature baby, died, she noted in her diary: "Find my baby dead. Send for Hogg. Talk. A miserable day. In the evening read The Fall of the Jesuits...