Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage ended in tragedy. One night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
...thousand enraged subjects of Trans-jordan's wily little King Abdullah stormed up to his palace at Amman screaming "Fight to the death!" "Down with the British!" "Down with Truman!" Abdullah came out of the palace alone, faced the mob unarmed, except for a silver-handled dagger. He asked a wide-eyed question: "Why do you disturb the rest of a devout Moslem in the heat of the day during Ramadan?" Then he hurled a taunt: "Why are you not enrolled in the ranks of the army instead of a mob? Transjordan is my heart, and my mission...
...more bullets into Togliatti before police seized him. Blood soaked through Togliatti's grey double-breasted suit and made small, neat pools on the cobblestones. In the hot sun the blood soon dried. (The spot where he fell was only two blocks from where he had narrowly missed death 25 years ago, when Fascist police stood him against a wall to be executed; he escaped when the executioner lost his nerve.) Two bullets had pierced Togliatti's right lung, a third had struck him in the neck. He was able to mumble a question: he asked...
...Orbay's defense was shapely, blonde Musherref Ishikman, his "fiancee," who testified that Hashmet had been visiting her at her house at the hour of the crime. The court merely concluded that Orbay had found another friend to help him out. This time the court sentenced Orbay to death for "premeditated murder...
Beulah Louise Overell, now 19, acquitted of the bludgeon-&-blast death of her parents last October, was doing all right financially. The Overell estate, as valued in probate court...