Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain's Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria (now living in France), a miner's daughter and a miner's wife, whose Communism rose from the pits. She grew up amid strikes, riots, unemployment, sudden death. She has two children whom she mentioned in her fiery Civil War speeches urging Spain's women to put the cause above husbands and children ("it is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
Ferdinand got the support of Russia's Nicholas II, after Stambolov had been conveniently hacked to death by an assassin. He promoted himself from prince to czar, later sealed his own regal fate by choosing Wilhelm's side in World War I. In 1918 he stole out of Sofia, leaving his throne to his son Boris...
...million in the Indian subcontinent have come two symbols-a man of love and a man of hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, capital of the state he had founded. His devoted and equally fanatic sister, Fatima, was at his side; so was his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Wadia, whom he had disowned because she married a Parsee (as he had done before...
Gandhi's death shamed Hindus and Moslems into halting the communal massacres which he had been unable to stop during his life. Jinnah's passing might release a new wave of fanaticism which even he would have opposed. As he died a crisis which might bathe all India in blood was boiling up. When the news of his death reached New Delhi, a Hindu said, "A man can be more dangerous in death than in life." He meant that the inflammatory preachings of Jinnah the agitator would live on, but the occasionally restraining hand of Jinnah the politician...
...detectives triumphantly packed him off for questioning. About all the police knew was that, like Roa, Bernal was a mystic given to double-talk about such things as "thought-transference wheels." They still had to prove that he even knew Roa or that he had any connection with the death of Gaitán. Next step would be a psychiatric examination...