Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Infantry swarmed in only after the tanks had dashed back & forth through the streets of Tazang, "shooting up the town" to break Chinese morale. Behind the Japanese troops came Japanese armored cars and "mopping up squads." These found such grim evidence of stubborn resistance in the face of certain death as Chinese machine gunners who had handcuffed themselves to their guns and died at their posts...
...Chiang, who "wears the pants" (see cut, p. 18) in the Chinese Government to a greater extent than any woman since the death of the dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...
...Government is not obliged to appeal for obedience, but has the right to impose it. ... We have come to agree with the sage formula of that exceptional captain of Christ, Saint Ignatius de Loyola, who imposed on his disciples silent obedience 'until death.' The task must be accomplished. We must win by our own strength alone...
...ending, and legs to stand on-under a shell of unassailable convention. Many Mansions' armor plate-the Church-does not succeed altogether in fending criticism from its vulnerabilities: its stiff dialogue, thin ideas, creaking earnestness. Nevertheless, the play's carapacious subject will probably save it from instant death...
...Manhattan's Columbus Hospital Extension, 16 years ago, an hour-old infant lay near death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been "tired," had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder...