Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's LaGuardia Field, 42 were killed in a take-off accident that ended in flaming death in a United Airlines DC-4 for all but six of its occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
...days, the traps banged 48 times. Life had run out for the men who had exterminated 700,000 inmates of Mauthausen concentration camp. Some of their victims had been thrown into whirling cement mixers, tossed to ravenous dogs, buried alive, used for laboratory experiments. Three G.I. executioners made death for the killers relatively merciful...
...brief stay at Chicago was the last stop on the road to Harvard. Dean Thayer invited him to become Story Professor of Law, and 1913 found him Carter Professor of Jurisprudence. At Dean Thayer's death in 1916, Professor Pound became Dean of the Law School. He was the first men graduate of the School to hold that post...
...apparatus for administering electric shock at home. Heart disease, paralysis, cancer, tuberculosis and polio were among the diseases it was alleged to "cure." It might, at that: its voltages could easily cause death...
...about $44,000, went to the U.M.W.'s company, Lewmurken,* Inc., which once tried to save Rocky Mountain Fuel by lending President Roche $709,693. It had good reason to keep the company going. Miss Roche, a militant liberal, had taken over the presidency two years after the death of her union-hating father, who had joined other Colorado mining companies in smashing the U.M.W. in the ill-famed Ludlow riots...