Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deserted his old post for the duration, he had certainly not been idle elsewhere. Last week, just before Eros returned to Piccadilly Circus, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan was able to announce that, for the first time in 25 years, Britain's birth rate had overtaken its death rate...
...Communist leader known to the underground as El Fahd (The Cheetah). Last week El Fahd, pale and thin after an eight-day hunger strike against conditions in his sweltering Baghdad prison, faced his judges in striped pajamas and sandals. Salman fainted in his chair as he heard the sentence: death for him and two codefendants. Thirty-four others were sentenced to prison, 28 were acquitted...
While Iraq's young Regent Abdul Illah (whose approval is necessary for the death sentences) considered whether or not Communism can be stopped by hanging its leaders, Iraqi Communists showed signs that they were still very much alive. Their secret presses, silent during the trial, got out a pamphlet protesting an "action which Hitler dared not take, and only the Franco regime can equal...
Industrial progress, Davis explains, brings a drop in the death rate before it causes a drop in the birth rate. So by 1970, he estimates, Latin America's population will be between 200,000,000 and 225,000,000. By that date the U.S. is expected to have only between 150,000,000 and 170,000,000. In little more than half a century, by Davis' calculations, U.S. population may be only half of Latin America...
...promised his father that it would be his last fight-unless he won. He wanted enough money to go into business in California, managing and training other fighters. Last week, 17 hours after Champion Robinson flattened him, 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle died of a cerebral hemorrhage, the first death in a championship fight in modern U.S. boxing history...