Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the 20-Yard Line. Harry Truman had taken a tremendous political gamble. One risk was that the special session might backfire on the Democrats: the Republicans might straightway haul up the President's civil rights program and let the Southern Democrats filibuster it -and the session - to death. Another was that Republicans might run away with the session. Already in the works were Republican plans for more investigations of the Democratic Administration...
Last year, after his 87th birthday, he began growing steadily weaker. One day last week he fell into a deep coma and his only son was called to his bedside. A few hours later President Harry Truman announced the death of John Joseph ("Black Jack"*) Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World...
When a suspicious British soldier leads a searching party to the house, Dennehay goes over the cliff and is smashed to death. As Author Godden handles this story, it becomes at once an anguished lyric and a beautifully balanced tale of suspense...
Said Hughes: "My life is not exactly going to be dull for the next two years. I'm really cooking at RKO and things are going to pop. I'll make news for you. The only thing that could stop me would be my death-and even that would be a story...
...father's death, and his own inheritance, gave Hughes freedom. He did not know exactly what talents he had, but he knew he was smart. He had outgrown childish toys; he was ready for grown-up toys. He had (or soon would have) the money to buy them; he had the brains to use them. He would have fun. But grown-up fun, he quickly found, sometimes involves frustration...