Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonplussed, I was bewildered . . . to see well-informed and ordinarily accurate TIME report in its May 2 issue that Stan Jones, writer of Ghost Riders,* is a "leathery-necked forest ranger" in Death Valley National Monument...
...field officers actively engaged in ad ministering our national forests are known as "forest rangers"; such men employed by the national parks and national monuments are "park rangers" ... A forest ranger in Death Valley would be an amazing phenome non. It's a long way between trees in that country . . . May I add that your mistake is indeed a very common...
...could not shake the fear that he might never recover completely. After his death, attendants found evidence of the lonely struggle of his wounded mind: a book, opened to Sophocles' "Chorus from Ajax," lay beside his bed. He had been reading...
...Heris issued the following statement yesterday on his colleague's death...
Somehow, Dostoevsky managed to edit The Citizen regularly all through 1873. Early the following year he quit his job, but in 1876 he decided to launch Diary, an all-Dostoevsky monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...