Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...
...stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans., an automobile aerial protruding from the snow led searchers to a suffocated motorist...
George Polk, Middle East correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System, had established a reputation as a fearless and honest reporter and as an opponent of the Greek Royalist Government. His death occurred during the very week he was to have returned to the United States to accept one of Harvard's coveted Nieman Fellowships...
Less than a year after his death (in 1813), his sons were already planning to ignore his wish and publish the autobiography. They quarreled about it, and not until 1905 did a small, expurgated edition appear. The present edition, which is complete, also includes two "commonplace books" in which the good doctor recorded hundreds of experiences, conversations and thoughts...
...commonplace books are peppered with lugubrious notices on the passing of old friends, for death disturbed him. Yet, in 1792, he wrote down a wry "Eulogium on Death": "1. It relieves unhappy and discontented husbands and wives; 2. It relieves children from parents who keep them too long out of their estates; 3. It relieves Physicians of incurable patients ... 5. It relieves the world of old men who keep the minds of men in chains to old prejudices. These men do not die half fast enough. Few Clergymen, Physicians, or Lawyers beyond 60 do any good to the world." When...