Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuskegee Institute reported only two lynchings in the U.S. during 1948, both in Georgia. One other death was listed as "borderline" because only two men participated in the slaying. By Tuskegee's rule, it takes three to make a lynching...
...thought and religion." Food was brought in and prices went down. Before the new policy was introduced, ton chang (the people's court) was dreaded by many middle-class Chinese. The Reds admitted regretfully that "in some places landlord and rich peasant elements were unnecessarily put to death." A month after Kaifeng's capture ton chang had done no "account settling...
...many a South-of-France chapel. In each picture the Virgin Mary or a patron saint also appears, serene and smiling above the disaster. Done in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, the paintings are "ex-votos" (thank offerings) by parishioners who were grateful for narrow escapes from death. No one knows who painted most of them; the donor-not the artist-usually got his name in the corner...
...with lamentations, explanations and evasions. An Internal Revenue Bureau spokesman unofficially explained the apparent reversal of the earlier ruling by pointing out that the Amos 'n' Andy transaction was a transfer of real property, since the show presumably could go on forever, even after the death of its originators (Charles Correll & Freeman Gosden). But the Jack Benny Show, without Benny, would undoubtedly collapse; therefore, Benny's personal services, rather than his real property, are involved...
...American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often" it is too late for an operation. Dr. Cameron would like to see still more mass examinations; chest X rays for everyone over 45, taken once or twice a year, he said, would cut the death rate from cancer of the lung by "a considerable figure...