Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the Greek army had been fighting waist-deep in snow along the craggy frontier. Whenever the gunfire died away, the sharp cold silence was shattered by another sound, the voice of the rebel radio. "Greek soldiers, why are you up here in the mountains slowly freezing to death, dying like trapped mountain goats? Whom are you fighting for? Rich people sitting back comfortably in Athens, avoiding their military service and getting richer and richer? What...
Later, however, the fraud came to light and both Michael and his double were arrested. Last week Michael was found guilty and sentenced to death; his impersonator was acquitted. He could not, said the court-martial, be held responsible for his actions. As Michael was marched off to await execution, his ailing double departed for a tuberculosis sanatorium on the outskirts of Athens, where $1,500 worth of treatment might save his life...
...until June and then, because of my blood pressure, I'll quit for a year at least." He added bitterly: "When Stop the Music can give three iceboxes away instead of two and get listeners, it's a silly business to be in anyway." And what about death & taxes? "You wind up being a sieve for the Treasury Department . . . All you're working toward is a coffin, and I never saw one with a built-in safe...
...high taxes his owner had to pay (as much as 80% of the purses) cut Shannon down to three or four select races a year. Riddle became so fond of him that he turned down offer after offer for the horse. Last year, after Peter Riddle's death, all Australia listened in by radio as Shannon was once again led into the auction ring...
...Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would enter Heaven shading his eyes against the glare and protesting: "Oh! Oh! Oh! So overdone! So garish! So Renaissance...