Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead, who have died in nearly all lands and have been swallowed up by the blue waters of nearly all oceans...
Clearly, the two planes had struck at 21,000 ft. over the Painted Desert, the faster overtaking the slower. The dead, scattered out over 2,000 yards of arid land, had burned in the fires of the crash. Of 128 men, women and children aboard the two aircraft, none had survived. It was the worst commercial airline disaster in U.S. aviation history...
...prewar Navy, where the work was sometimes slack, shore leaves plentiful, he ran a taut command from sunrise to sundown, often ordered gunnery practice on weekends. His drive−like his temper−was merciless. In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied Ernie King, "we've raised her 130 feet in the open sea. We've brought her 130 miles...
Their first victim was a 16-year-old boy. The crowd lifted his dead body and carried it before them. A Polish red-and-white flag, dipped in his blood, was escorted by a proud and pretty Polish girl. Patriotic songs (Poland Is Not Yet Lost) were sung, but above the sound of marching and singing could be heard the chant: "Chleba, chleba, chleba!" (bread, bread, bread...
...strange and terrifying fissures that scar the once sturdy heart of the British middle class. The means employed are female. Yet the reader with an attentive eye can see, as did Poet Wystan Auden, how "the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead...