Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music. I cannot think that many Americans like to hear it. I guess for them there is no great music but Jazz. So you are likely one of the seldom who hear classical music. Many people go to the music halls as they go to church, boring themselves to death all the while...
...friendly lake. Then he will drive home to Glennis and tell her that the flight was "like all the rest of them." After a while, Chuck Yeager's friends hope, the Old Man will transfer him to some other Air Force job where promotion steps faster than the death that rides in the cockpit with every test pilot. From that day, others, to whom Chuck Yeager has pointed the way, will carry on with flight beyond the sonic wall...
...undergo a radical change . . . Audacity of thought is necessary. There is no fear of heresy, for history tells us that creative periods have always been times for the emergence of heretics . . . But today there can be no more inquisition, judgment, condemnation, and execution. The fire that burned saints to death for heresy has been thoroughly extinguished. The trouble is that there is so little heresy in the Chinese churches, so little creative thinking, so little originality...
...Osborn made a fortune from iron ore discoveries in Canada, Lapland, Africa and Latin America (he gave most of the money to charity), sponsored one of the first workmen's compensation bills in the nation, Michigan's first women's suffrage measure. Two days before his death, he married Stellanova Osborn, 55, his longtime secretary and adopted daughter (after a court dissolved the adoption...
These two instances are only the most recent examples of biased "reporting." Almost the whole press coverage of the un-American Activities Committee was slanted from the first whack of Parnell Thomas' gavel. The burst of front-page copy which followed Lawrence Duggan's death and the one-sided stories of the slander thrown at Dr. Edward U. Condon by the Thomas Committee have been mere items in the "crusade...