Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge wrote: "The Food Control Law is a bad law, but as long as it is law the people must obey it. ... There are judges I know who buy on the black market pretending that their hands are clean. When I consider that I am alone in marching on death with a clean slate, I forget all my troubles and sorrows." Last month he died...
This Sunday in England's Westminster Abbey, under the statue dedicated to Methodism's hymn-writing founders, John and Charles Wesley, a memorial tablet will be unveiled to Henry Francis Lyte. And in almost every country throughout the world Christians will celebrate the centenary of his death and of the composition of his long-lived hymn...
Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies; Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee: In life, in death, 0 Lord, abide with...
...young scientist working on cancer research falls in love with a young girl dying of tuberculosis. Indeed, the X rays proclaim that she should already be dead; what is keeping her alive is a passionate desire to reproduce. She is additionally remarkable for having learned the nature of death, and for having visions that foretell the future...
...preferred to live in Europe, but America and Americans always fascinated her. Four in America is an inquiry about the American soul as exemplified in four great men: Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James and George Washington. A year ago last July, a few weeks before her death, Miss Stein sent the manuscript to Yale, which has now published it in its entirety for the first time...