Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Human Machine. The union did win one great advance. Murray's demands for social welfare had been 11.23? for old-age pensions, 6.27? for death and sickness insurance. The industry had gagged. It was particularly set against the idea of paying for pensions to which the workers themselves did not contribute. But the board, arguing that "a part of normal business costs is to take care of temporary and permanent depreciation in the human 'machine,' " upheld Murray. Although it trimmed his demands, it allowed 6? for pensions (to go into effect next spring), 4? for insurance. Many...
Only 52 people, on an average, die in the U.S. each year from rabies, but almost everyone has a chilling fear of the disease, and with good reason: once it takes hold, it invariably ends in a horrible sequence of delirium, paralysis and death. The only way to save a patient bitten by a rabid animal is to give him a prompt injection of vaccine which kills the disease before it is fully developed...
Bruins figured that the new layout would put a stop to something else: the traditional rambunctiousness of the fraternities. During pledge week last winter, fraternity high jinks ended in one student death, several hundred dollars worth of property damage, and a finger-shaking from President Wriston, who called the fraternities "discriminatory, nondemocratic, and anti-intellectual...
Instead, Editor R. T. Peyton-Griffin ran a story about a minor squabble between an Englishwoman and a Japanese consul 28 years ago, articles on Philosopher Lao-tse and Hittite hieroglyphics. But though the paper was being starved to death, it could not just lie down and die. In a Page-One box, Peyton-Griffin plaintively announced: "This journal is petitioning the appropriate authorities for permission to cease publication...
Essentially, Call It Treason is a forthright story of flight, pursuit and death, of the hunters and the hunted. Of its kind it is a good...