Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preliminary examinations indicate that industrial wastes caused the death of the fish, state officials said yesterday. A complete investigation now underway will take about a week, the officials said, and those responsible for dumping the industrial wastes into the river--if their identities can be determined--are subject to prosecution...
Woody graduated from Harvard with honors in history in 1924, and began his career if teaching and conducting in 1925. At his death, he was James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. During 1965-66, he served as Acting Master of Adams House...
...departed among that select company--which includes such noble figures as Bliss Perry, Theodore Spencer, Zechariah Chafee, Perry Miller, and Raphael Demos--was increased by one with the death last Friday of Professor G. Wallace Woodworth. He was--and preferred to be--known, however, simply as "Woody," just as another Harvard giant, Charles T. Copeland, had been universally known to earlier generations as "Copey...
...ruined chateau, a family of French aristocrats are slowly starving to death. The austere, haughty marquise conceives a plan. With the help of God-and her daughter and granddaughter-she will turn the place into a bordello. As Baudelaire wrote and the picture illustrates, "Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed." In a sudden deluge of customers, the most libidinous patient is Cesar (Yves Montand), a glib, jittery professional thief. The ladies of the house conspire to render unto themselves what is Cesar's-a million stolen francs-with...
...King James Version, Gospels and Apocrypha--are not, I think, to be take as acid annotations on either the myth they illustrate or the times which produced their referant images. Rather they serve to make unexpectedly immediate a story which it may seem has been literally told to death. Not so long ago, the armband had brief life in this town as the visible emblem of a curious sort of self-election. When the disciple in Jesus make their first appearance, wearing their armbands, both they and our strike that was gain a little in dignity...