Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later he was able to see the Asturian Dinamiteros leading the final assault into the city, lit like gruesome fireflies by the flashes of their bursting bombs. That night though a handful of Rightist civil guards remained holed up in the ruins of Teruel's cathedral sworn to die by their guns. Teruel's citizens staged an exuberant torchlight parade through the streets, and captured searchlights floodlighted captured buildings. An additional 20,000 Leftist troops had poured into Teruel, preparing for the expected counteroffensive...
Some 75,000 persons die in New York City every year, and of these about one-fifth-43 per day-come to the attention of the medical examiner. Many of them are newborn babies abandoned in doorways, rubbish heaps, lavatories. To establish a presumption of infanticide, it is necessary to show that the child was not born dead. The autopsy surgeon removes the lungs, places them in a basin of water. If the child lived even briefly after birth, his lungs will contain air and will float; if not, they will sink...
...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...
Like stiff collars, cuff links went out with the War when a name-tag and a wristwatch became enough jewelry for any man to live and die with. Their return is credited largely to shirtmakers who have revived soft French cuffs (folded back) which require links...
...attitude through no fault of their own that is not only unnecessary, but destructive of life itself. Youth, if he reckons in the evil formulating his ideals, will be able to meet and conquer the disappointment of life, and preserve his idealism to the end. Santa Claus need never die...