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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stable following in either House. Politically, Congress was considerably more conservative than the President. His leadership was frequently overturned on critical issues by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats, an unstable alliance which provided no consistent leadership of its own. A Republican-Dixiecrat coalition filibustered and voted to death his civil-rights program. A wider coalition of Democrats and Republicans crushingly repudiated another major Truman election promise: repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The Senate rejected three of his personal appointees. Congress ignored his request for compulsory health insurance, refused to try the Brannan plan even as an experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Fancy Dans." The admirals had said that the Navy's power and prestige were being "nibbled to death" and that their service's morale was being wrecked. Replied Bradley sharply: "Senior officers decrying the low morale of their forces evidently do not realize that the esprit of the men is but a mirror of their confidence in their leadership." As for admirals risking their careers to carry their case to the public, Bradley snapped: "I would like to offer some impartial advice to all aspiring martyrs: to be successful in a sacrifice, he must be 100% right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Incorrigible & Indomitable | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...superior officers took him to an open field near the Fukuoka crematory in northern Kyushu. There Satano had to "volunteer" to behead a captured U.S. B-29 airman. After he had swung the executioner's sword, Satano watched one of his officers torture another prisoner to death by shooting arrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Flowers for the Prosecution | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...murder got routine treatment from Baltimore newspapers: in a fight between white and black boys one afternoon three weeks ago in Carroll Park, a 19-year-old Negro named Linwood Matthews was stabbed to death. After the police arrested an 18-year-old white boy and charged him with murder, Baltimore went on about its business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Guilty Before God | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

This exhibit, which she calls the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, results on view in the Medical School. Exact to scale and complete even in lighting affects, the gallery is a valuable study exhibit for the Department's courses and seminars...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Legal Medicine Probes Deaths, Gets Results | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

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