Word: deaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week, sentenced by the Chinese to die for espionage, Yoshiko asked not to be put to death at Peiping's Bridge of Heaven. She said she would be "greatly embarrassed" unless she was shot privately and without fanfare...
...suicide of Jan Masaryk in Czechoslovakia today has a significance far beyond that of the loss of the man himself. Masaryk was almost universally accepted as a good man, and his death in the wake of the Communist revolution is a severe shock to the entire world, not only in its personal aspect, but in its symbolism as well. Many people will believe that any action which resulted in this man's suicide must necessarily be evil...
...member of the Communist Party in the United States, I sincerely regret the death of Jan Masaryk. I regard him as representing the best of the bourgeois tradition, but I think that his death by no means signifies darkness in the future for Czechoslovakia, but rather progress toward a new and higher level of existence. Geoffrey White...
...grey striped one. He thought he had won a partial victory. A jury in the grey courthouse* at Dedham, Mass, returned verdicts against two of the doctors by finding that they had performed their duties "in such a negligent manner" that it caused Mrs. Rines's injury and death. Damages assessed against the doctors totaled $15,000. Verdicts were returned in favor of three other physicians; the cases against the three nurses and the hospital had been dropped...
...costumed duel-to-the-death in which "the two antagonists lock wrists . . . their sweat-drenched faces only an inch apart . . . and swap talk: 'Norman dog! Anglo-Saxon lilies will grow over thy bones ere yon sun sets...