Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military supplies inevitably fell to the Communists without a real fight. Then Judd assailed the State Department's long effort to sell China a coalition government. Said Judd: "The Chinese knew then, and it took us a long time to learn, that coalition with Communists means the death of the government." After an hour and a quarter of it, Acheson's icy diplomatic composure failed him. His face flamed, then whitened. He picked up his papers, stuffed them into his case and snapped: "We are not getting anywhere." That was how the Republicans felt about...
...Edwards, supervisor of the Winthrop House Dining Hall, died in Mt. Auburn Hospital shortly after midnight yesterday morning. An autopsy held yesterday morning failed to reveal the cause of death...
According to the Cambridge Police Medical Examiner, David C. Dow '27, who signed the certificate, death was caused by "asphixiation." Although no note was found, Dow claimed that Nurick had been depressed. He used a piece of rope stretched from the top of the door leading to his room, which was on the second floor of the house...
...Battalion, Wessex Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, was assembled in England in January 1944 and destroyed in Normandy six months later. From the City, from the Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published...
...first days of Overlord, the members of the sth crash ashore in France, and death begins its steady tithing. Corporal Shuttleworth dies with a snigger: "The cow, she'll get my pension." Major Maddison, leading a rash reconnaissance into disastrous ambush, is shot by one of his own infuriated men. Colonel Pothecary's turn comes too. "[He] rose to his feet . . . ignoring the bullets that squealed around him . . . They saw him stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with...