Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end nine persons were known dead. It would be days or weeks before anyone knew how many others might lie buried beneath the 150-350 ft. of fallen rock. But the American Red Cross, compiling a list based on reports from relatives and friends, said at least 1,500 were known to have been in the area who have not reappeared...
They will need it, for Milwaukee's Braves are far from dead. After five players had failed to fill the hole left at second by Red Schoendienst, out with tuberculosis, Manager Fred Haney is finally getting some help from Bobby Avila, 33, the old Cleveland Indian, who knows what to do with the ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home...
Coming from Bing, the cry had a hollow ring. The boys still remember his long estrangement from their mother, the late Dixie Lee,, and they have yet to forgive him. They could take no pride in the mounting box score of their own shenanigans (public brawls, one man dead after numerous drunken-driving accidents, Dennis' paternity suit), but do not think that Bing has set a much better example. Not one of his sons expressed much sorrow that their father had chosen to go fishing out in the Pacific rather than turn up for the opening of their night...
Invented. As the carnival death watch continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes have taken place. A Greek restaurateur, sexually disturbed because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound...
Senator Joe McCarthy, by Richard Rovere. A well-balanced account of the man whom Reporter Rovere regards as the Dead End Kid of U.S. politics...