Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know what is going to happen. I do not know how long I am going to live. If I knew when I was going to die I would get me about four women and have a hell of a time before I die...
...Holiness Pius XI, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Summus Pontifex, 261st Bishop of Rome, Servant of the Servants of God, Head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for 17 years and four days. He was dying. Ill as well as aged (81), he had refused to take to his bed till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla...
Every year about 1,200 people die from tetanus in the U. S., many of them in the South because of greater exposure to the germs from walking barefoot. Although 70% of tetanus cases are fatal, the disease can usually be prevented by injections of tetanus antitoxin given right after a wound has been dressed. But once the disease gets to the central nervous system, tetanus antitoxin does little good...
...pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries out, "Too few are dead, too few." He wishes he could die...
...execution of Murderer Sylvester Warner, 24, to study his case. Fourteen months passed, "Happy" Chandler succeeded Ruby Laffoon. Years passed, 25 other prisoners marched to their doom, and still Murderer Warner, forgotten, waited in the death house. Last week Governor Chandler got around to a decision, said Warner must die this week as planned five years...