Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lose the coarse ferocity which had endeared him to voters in Mississippi's piney woods. He bragged that one operation had left him, with "no more chin than a jack-rabbit"; he said he had a pistol under his pillow for photographers. He talked nonchalantly of death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey to another ailment. He began running...
...death, he received the honors due a man of talent and position. Mississippi sent a detachment of 50 national guardsmen to keep a watch as Bilbo, resplendent in the red tie and diamond stickpin which had been his campaign badge, lay in state at the Dream House. The U.S. Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened...
Ninety-six percent of Americans believe in God and 76% in life after death. Only 4% are convinced that they are unhappy; 57% think they are fairly happy; 38% consider themselves very happy, and 1% can't tell. Nevertheless, one in three knocks on wood for luck, one in ten believes in throwing spilled salt over his shoulder and one in five shudders when a black cat crosses his path...
...Life & Death. Since full and free discussion comes naturally to the I.T.U., the union's challenge will be thoroughly chewed in weeks to come by its 87,164 members. Older than most of the newspapers and printing houses it deals with, the I.T.U. is encrusted with tradition, paternalism and a certain amount of featherbedding. Almost as soon as he learns the union's rules-such as the one forbidding editors to lay a hand on type -an apprentice learns how relentlessly the I.T.U. will take care of him. In a strike, it will...
...Associated Press story from Fort Worth, Tex. reported the death of one Wilton Rhodes Earle, 39, onetime accountant at the atomic bomb plant at Oak Ridge. Said the A.P., quoting an "autopsy surgeon": Earle had died of atomic radiation to which he was exposed at Oak Ridge...