Word: die
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...young king Henry, vaulted to power at the death of his father, must prove his legitimacy as a king by leading his hopelessly inferior army against haughty France. The play climaxes at the Battle of Agincourt, where 6,000 Englishmen must fight or die against an army of 30,000 French...
...Several women die each year going through a procedure that is relatively simple," Gienapp says...
...What has carried us through is our refusal to give up, our refusal to die," Harvard captain Tal Ben-Shachar '96 said. "Most of the matches against Princeton were tightly fought, but they always broke. It was inevitable. That's how we prepared--they were unable to endure the fast-pace of the matches. The satisfaction was immense...
...None of the restaurateurs are talking about the health issues," Dempsey said. She noted that female workers exposed to second-hand smoke are four times as likely to die from lung cancer...
When he settled for good, it was in Samoa, in a grand plantation house designed for large-scale entertaining. He wrote steadily, made more and more money, and happily or resignedly spent all of it keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition...