Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during a sermon, finished what he was saying, and then was helped from the pulpit. Though he recuperated, he never let up, frequently ended services by saying: "If I am still here, I'll be with you next week." Once he asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where we cannot convince, let us be willing...
...Confessing that she beat her sick seven-month-old son to death because she "couldn't stand his crying," pudgy Georgette Brucks, 21, was sentenced to from one to ten years in jail. She offered to submit to sterilization if granted probation. Los Angeles' Judge Thomas Ambrose so ordered it. Georgette also agreed to have one surviving child, and one yet unborn, put up for adoption...
...rare malignant tumor, retinoblastoma, which occurs in only one out of 500,000 children with eye trouble. Surgery is necessary to prevent the cancer from spreading along the optic nerve to the brain, or through the blood stream to the liver and the other organs of the body, causing death...
...getting out two more editions. In the composing room, printers set up a front-page box bearing a curt farewell. As had happened too often, readers had to turn to other papers to get the complete news; the Star did not even carry an obit on its own death...
...York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...