Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reuther had missed death by an eyelash. He remembered turning a second before the blast-if he had not, his spine would have been blown out. Four heavy buckshot had plowed into his arm, shattering bone and tearing flesh. Another had entered his chest. But he would live, keep the arm and, with luck, regain...
...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
...many new facts had come to light about Gaitan's death. On the killer's battered body were found the identification papers of a 25-year-old religious fanatic named Juan Roa Sierra, but there was serious doubt that they were the dead man's own papers. Everybody agreed that the Communists had had a hand-right up to the elbow-in the affair. Secretary Marshall had denounced "the same definite pattern which provoked strikes in Italy and France and is endeavoring to prejudice the situation in Italy's elections." In Washington, the Central Intelligence Agency...
...strange lack of hurly-burly in Brooklyn, where silent Leo (The ex-Lip) Durocher, back-room exile, was busy fitting young arms and legs (products of the Dodgers' farm system) into his batting order. A reporter asked him: "Are you going to worry every club to death, like last year?" Answered The Lip: "I wasn't here last year. Remember...
...additional gift of rare Oriental miniatures, was promised the Museum last Thursday when it was announced that Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller had left her 26-item collection to her husband, on the condition that the Fogg Museum receive it on his death. No estimate has yet been placed on these objects...