Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the millions in Europe and Asia to whom World War II brought death,* FitzGerald's survey estimated that world population had risen by some 200,000,000 in the past decade. This was like adding "another North America" to the claimants for the world's food supply...
...chamber, Communist Jacques Duclos reached new highs of invective. When he attacked U.S. aid to France, he was jeered and booed by voices from all the non-Communist benches. Comrade Duclos yelled that Premier Ramadier "wanted to obtain thanks from Washington by taking to your masters there the death certificate of French Communism...
...familiar face of Enrico Caruso, in silver, turned up in the family-circle lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House. In a flurry of bulb-popping, the late great tenor's widow, Mrs. Dorothy Caruso (who had two unhappy marriages after Caruso's death, resumed the name of her devoted "Rico" after each divorce), presented a heroically scowling bust of the tenor, flanked by four full-blown little nymphs, to the Met's General Manager Edward Johnson...
...ever seen. Riding a hurtling Bronx express, they quarreled violently about it. When the train stopped, Orozco dashed out and disappeared into a blinding snowstorm. Siqueiros waited all night in the subway entrance, making occasional forays into the night, fearful that a great Mexican talent was freezing to death somewhere under the alien snow. Two days later Siqueiros learned that his angry friend had simply ended up at a party...
...electrical storm. "After all," he explained, "you can't take a man like Orozco, put him in a chair and paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...