Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to suffer the kind of humiliating poverty it knew during the last depression. He realized that the country might be at war with Soviet Russia within a decade, a year, or-if an "incident" occurred-within a month. But experience had toughened him; he catalogued the Russians with death and taxes, put his faith in the Marshall Plan, crossed his fingers and hoped for the best...
William A. Tuttle '48 plunged to his death yesterday when his Chevrolet, coupe crashed through a 60-foot section of fence on the Harvard Bridge and plummeted 30 feet into the Charles River...
...thou dost set thyself to that thou oughtest, namely, to suffering and to death, it will quickly be better with thee, and thou shalt find peace...
...weeks, is a pretty good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
...Plague and I (now in its third printing) is all about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body, and a description of the life & death around her-"small dry coughs, loose phlegmy coughs, short staccato coughs, long whooping coughs"-it has all the frank appeal of a public hanging...