Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa and messenger of the ring, charged with transmitting to their employers the secret code used by Army planes in communicating with their stations. Since the U. S., unlike Germany, does not punish espionage by death in peacetime, stiffest sentence the spies faced on any count was 20 years imprisonment...
...long been attacking as fiercely as they had the mayor-unexpectedly jumped into action. He secured grand jury indictments charging beefy Captain Kynette and two aides with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, and malicious use of explosives, the first of which carries a possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders directly from the mayor's brother and secretary, Joseph...
...Ungovernable" lashed out with a flood which promised to change not only its own course but also the course of the whole Sino-Japanese War. Severe breaks in the dikes near Kaifeng sent a five-foot wall of water fanning out over a 500-square-mile area, spreading death. Toll from Yellow River floods is not so much from quick drowning as from gradual disease and starvation. The river's filth settles ankle-deep on the fields, mothering germs, smothering crops. Last week, about 500,000 peasants were driven from 2,000 communities to await rescue or death...
Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's No. 1 George Washington, dreamed, wrote and taught a Czech national state during his university careers in Vienna and Prague. When the World War broke out, with a death sentence over his head, he shuttled between London, Paris. Russia, raising money and sympathy for his unborn nation. His assistant, Eduard Benes, meanwhile, faked passports, forged visas for Czech conspirators, escaped to Switzerland, then Paris where he and Masaryk set up a pre-natal National Council. The Allies were more than willing to foster a separatist movement in the heart of the Central Powers...
...Cummings always spells ego, stands for Nobody. And Nobody is simply anybody who doesn't have delusions that he's Somebody. Consequently he can think of his physical existence in simple terms, can think of death without thinking of taxes, and can think of doom without thinking about bluffing it: god's terrible face, brighter than a spoon, collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life (which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred...