Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time-honored tradition of sweat and agony, and the second with the benefit of my clinical training in the Read method. It was almost unbelievable that two deliveries in the same general atmosphere could be so different. During the labor with my first child, I was scared to death, expecting the worst, and experiencing it. I couldn't wait for the anesthetic. My second delivery was a natural childbirth with no anesthesia, and no desire...
Jackson, like the nation, was probably hollering more than it hurt. One cab driver wailed, "I'm slowly starving to death"-but he was making $45 a week. One shopkeeper summed it up: "Business is only fair, but it could be a lot worse." And out on Falihee Road, a gear-cutting company was building a new $4,000,000 plant. That meant 400 new jobs, when it was completed...
Dudley's 43 to 41 victory over Kirkland was won largely at the foul line, with the Commuters making good 21 out of 26 penalty shots. Dave Bishop clinched the game for Dudley with a long shot sudden-death basket...
...after Christmas, the Communist police came for Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. His mother had told him: "Son, do not be afraid of death, if necessary...
Bond of Blood. The second and last volume of The Diaries (the first appeared last year) reveals the crescendo of this torment, as it filled tuberculous Franz Kafka's own final years, up to his death in 1924, at 40. His father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used...