Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police favored an accidental death theory in the mysterious plantation trail shooting Monday of 27-year-old Grenville Baker '43, son of George F. Baker '99 who endowed the University Business School with $1 million...
Florida State Attorney William D. Hopkins said the death of young Baker, whose grandfather amassed a $100 million dollar fortune on Wall Street and gave $5 million for construction of the Business School, "doesn't look like murder...
...later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last fortnight, it was clear at once that the whole Aprista party-including Haya-was really on trial for Grana's death. "Flushed by a dead man!" cried a Peruvian last week on hearing that Haya had turned up at the Embassy...
...different kind of hero has appeared in recent European novels. He is a man with a highly developed taste for disaster; he accepts fear as a normal condition and death as less to be feared than the constant flight from it. Usually a disenchanted revolutionary, he feels that only in acts of simple decency can a man retain his humanity. He trusts nothing else...
Weinstock's test came when he caught a German deserter slipping into a ghetto tunnel. Should he return the soldier to the Germans or hand him over to the Jewish leader, to certain death in either case? Or should he save the deserter's skin? Weinstock stuck by his belief in the immediate human act; he hid the soldier. Later, when the British came, some former concentration-camp prisoners recognized the German deserter as a guard who had shot helpless men. They killed...