Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order. Panicky, the MATS men took an easy out, bumped seven emergency-furlough passengers-one lieutenant and six enlisted men-off the Pacific Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead son, a dying sister, a mother's funeral, etc.-the colonel turned his back, gathered up his family, marched to the loading ramp...
...King and members of the royal household as they stumbled in confusion out the front door. Premier Nuri asSaid, cunning veteran of two generations of Arab politics and unflinching friend of the West escaped from his house disguised as a woman-only to be hunted to death and dragged dead through the streets the next day. At noon of the first day, Kassem joined Aref and set up the headquarters of the triumphant revolution in the Defense Ministry...
Hotspur lies dead, however, at the end of the play, and the coming repudiation of Falstaff is announced near the beginning. Shakespeare's theme, one of his favorites, is the defeat of high disorder and glorious idiosyncrasy by a comparatively hum-drum and rather chilly practicality, in the person of Henry, Prince of Wales. In Part II of Henry IV Shakespeare shows us that Hotspur's colleagues are merely anarchic self-seekers and that Falstaff and his friends have a sizeable streak of moral rottenness; in Henry V the now-eponymous hero reconciles (with some disturbing overtones) personal grandeur with...
City and federal poison detectives went to work in the morning, starting from the supplier for the restaurant and the market where Margaret Kleinschmidt had bought her fish. Charles McWade, 43, a former Philadelphian who might have been shopping for fish on Tuesday, was found dead on a chicken farm near Toms River, N.J.; in his refrigerator was a remnant of nitrite-poisoned flounder. Without saying how much they knew or how they had learned it, Philadelphia and Camden health officials sounded the alarm...
Adam Trask raises lettuce, reads the Bible to both sons, and seeks after righteousness for its own sake. But his wife left him shortly after the boys were born, and he chose to tell them she was dead. When Cal finds out it is his mother who "runs the best house on the coast" in Monterery, he is certain he was doomed to be no good from birth...