Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Ford employees from janitor to vice president have been forbidden to smoke on the job. Old Henry did not approve of smoking, thought it made workers inefficient. Last week, six months after Old Henry's death, Young Henry lifted the ban-for all but women office workers...
...Soviet sector, they were confronted by a file of witnesses, some weeping, some scowling with hatred, some icily vengeful. But in this trial, the Communist desire to win friends and influence Germans diluted the passion for swift justice that had led the Russians at Nürnberg to demand death penalties for all the accused...
...summation, the Russian prosecutor reminded the court that the death penalty had been abolished in the Soviet Union (TIME, June 2). Next day the court passed sentence: life imprisonment for 14 of the murderers, 15 years' hard labor for the other two. An old Communist in the audience, who had not forgotten his year at Sachsenhausen, hissed: "They're making these swine out to be poor misguided people. I hope they send them all to the lead mines in Siberia...
Lynd termed the view that the middle class is the faith and hope of America as "just plain applesauce." Once this group was a powerful progressive force, but since the death of frontier democracy, the middle class has been crushed between the power of both "big business" and "big labor...
...Hainan off the South China coast. He was then an old man, and ill in health. He was set free in time to make his way home for the last time. Two weeks before he died at 64, he wrote his good friend the local abbot: "Life and death are mere accidents and not worth talking about...