Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of Antwerp would not have it that way. Throughout the city, they draped their windows with U.S. flags. To the Grand' Place came more than 5,000 Belgians, many of them bearing chrysanthemums and laurel. For Antwerp, whose citizens had called it "the city of sudden death" during the long rain of German V-bombs, this was a day to say thanks and farewell...
...Thank God she's alive," said Rolf Berndt when someone told him that Gitte would almost certainly have frozen to death in the unheated freight compartment of a Stratoliner. Sighed an airline official in Frankfurt: "Just say that I'd like to have some woman love me enough to fly to New York in that little...
...stop at a crossing on Havana's outskirts. In the darkness thousands were waiting; they had been waiting since early afternoon. Spotlights from Army jeeps and armored cars stabbed at the dark coach windows. In the glare 800 defiant revolutionaries waved at the crowd and shouted: "Death to Trujillo." Turned back by a Cuban gunboat, the men who had sailed from Cuba to overthrow Dominican Dictator Trujillo were returning under guard, and to Havana they were heroes...
Farewell to Grace. His chapter on Grace Moore was written before her death: ". . . she was one of those obnoxious little girls, congenitally exhibitionist, for whom some sort of career that would keep her before the public gaze was inevitable. . . . She doesn't really love music...
...sentimental O'Brien column, written the day his son Donel went off to war -and death-told a universal story. It was reprinted in Reader's Digest, read on the radio and at Rotary Clubs...