Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open, Chinese soldiers proverbially run. Cornered, they fight like wild tigers, defend every streetcorner and doorway, die frothing and screaming defiance...
...lined up with France. At the Foreign Office, abashed Italian newshawks were told by suave minions of not-so-suave British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon that "Premier Mussolini, it is hoped and believed, will abandon this project, with the result that the proposed Italo-Albanian customs union will die a speedy death...
...Nanking the so-called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism is proof that there is hope of a rebirth of the Chinese nation and of Chinese glory...
...West Indies, called himself Emperor, bled his native subjects until they turned on him, chased him into the jungle and destroyed him. Two grotesque African gods pillared the stage when the Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that another opera was about to be given in English which they could not understand. Soprano Pearl Besuner, made up as a haggish black woman, was almost unintelligible as she informed Smithers, Jones's cockney...
...profession of being a mother today is more dangerous than the average masculine profession, with all its risks." ¶ "Home delivery, even under the poorest conditions, is safer than hospital delivery." ¶ "Six thousand women die annually in the U. S. from puerperal infection." ¶ "In the ten largest [U. S.] cities hospitalization now ranges between 56% and 85% of all live births. The majority of [the nation's] births, however, still take place at home, 1,500,000 out of the 2,200,000 annually." ¶ "These statements certainly are astonishing. However, if we would really adopt...