Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really forgotten the 83 dead and 75 injured (some still in the hospital) from last year's 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance. But the good citizens of Le Mans and the nervous officials of France's Automobile Club de I'Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...
...careful plans were upset almost from the start. French Driver Louis Hery piled up his little (750 cc.) Panhard first time around the course. A few hours later he was dead of head injuries. As rain slicked the course, at least a dozen cars skidded, collided or overturned. But a phalanx of 1,000 gendarmes surrounded the track, and spectators at least were kept from harm...
...fields, eating meagerly of handouts and garbage, talking to virtually no one and smelling to high heaven. But when he died of a chill in Rome in 1783, "scarcely had he breathed his last when children in the street were heard to raise the cry, 'The saint is dead,' and the chorus was taken up all over the city." Exactly 100 years later he was canonized...
...character who can be called central, he is Crooked Creek's Preacher Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish...
...Julius Caesar. He once claimed grandiloquently: "I have vanquished the King of England in his might, the King of France in his authority, the people in their fury. I shall not yield to Mirabeaij." Hanged Talker. The biographers docu ment Lafayette wherever history found him - which was at the dead center of the libertarian movement...