Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instead of a simple distinction between premeditation and impulse, the amendment set up some more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...
...Kappler's superiors, Field Marshal "Smiling Albert" Kesselring and Generals Kurt Maeltzer and Eberhard von Mackensen, were originally condemned to death by a British military court on similar charges, later had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment...
...Odets, on his return to Manhattan after five years in gilded Hollywood, told readers of the New York Times why he was back: ". . . Is it still news that a Hollywood movie is usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible as chewing...
...first time in history, the U.S. woman can expect to reach the biblical age of threescore years and ten. On the basis of 1946 death rates, the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week, the average white woman's life expectancy is 70.3 years, that of white-men, 65.1.* The margin of difference between the races has been narrowing since 1900, but the average life span of non-whites is still much lower: for non-white women, 61 years; for non-white men, 57.5. General U.S. average is nearly 67 years, which is one year longer than...
...assembly also adopted new international rules for the statistical reporting of disease and causes of death. WHO delegates thought this important for two reasons: health services are handicapped in curing the world until they find out what (in exact language) ails it, and they must be sure that a report of "plague" somewhere back of Singapore means the same thing as "plague" in Geneva...