Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most amazing stories of innate instinct that could never have come by any process of evolution concerns Fabre's experiments with the mason bee, experiments suggested to Fabre by Darwin and made after the latter's death. The mason bee (Chalicodoma pyrenaica) builds a house of cement about as big as a thimble, fills it with honey, lays its larva, covers it over and then dies. Fabre took such houses that were built an inch apart and interchanged them, coloring with different colors each house and its bee for identification purposes. He then took the bees...
...coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre's piazza, read out a formal death sentence and shot...
...Meat. Chapman was captured twice but escaped each time. His weight dropped from 170 Ibs. to 90. He learned to eat rat meat and think it tasty; once, he, even took in stride the information that he had just eaten roast Jap. He was frequently near death from malaria, and he left the jungle in August 1945, with a complexion the color of his jungle-green uniform. But before the month was over, he volunteered to go back on a military mission and was parachuted back into his "green hell" for another two months...
...right down to it, the thing that broke up the Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split...
...teacher and he and Ellen would enter middle age with their human dignity and refurbished love intact. But meanwhile Ellen was going quietly insane. When he came to take her from her ancestral home and the in-laws he despised, she tried to choke him to death. Gregory went away "waiting for a direction, for the blasting and blinding miracle which could teach him how to love...