Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back row. I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty-"* Then, with the roar of applause and cheers from the 1,200 students ringing through the hall, Alben William Barkley, 78, slumped to the stage, dead of a heart attack...
...commandant's answer was to pull a pistol on the delegates, killing one. But before he could fire again the delegation had disarmed him, shot him dead with his own weapon. Word spread through Mirnoye and to two nearby camps. Prisoners revolted, disarmed the guards. On April 4 MVD security troops from the Arctic Circle towns of Norilsk and Igarka, armed with heavy machine guns, fought a battle with armed prisoners. Some 200 prisoners and twelve guards were killed. When prison order was restored, an estimated 80 prisoners were found to have escaped into the desolate countryside...
...days, though not a Frenchman had been touched, 42 Moroccans were dead. The worried Sultan sent three high officials to Marrakech to appeal for order. "Nobody," he said, "has the right to administer justice for himself...
...hours later nine of them were dead, and 55 were writhing in pain in hospitals. Next morning 27 more did not show up for work, and police began searching empty lots and alleys for their bodies. The drum of methyl alcohol was found nearly empty, its contents presumably circulating among other unsuspecting drinkers. Police cruised the native quarters with loudspeakers, warning: "Don't drink this weekend. Don't drink this weekend...
...Beautiful the Days, with its touch of Bellini-like sweetness, and the quick lilt of Young People (with its liltless follow-up line about the no-longer-young). Only in operatic passages that are datedly lush or flamboyantly melodramatic, or in the winegrower's inept vocalizings to his dead mother, does the generally vintage music turn to ordinary California, indeed even Hollywood, wine...