Word: die
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...held any military significance. He told Montgomery, who was clamoring for the chance to take it, that the German capital was "nothing but a geographical location" and that "my purpose is to destroy the enemy's forces." Churchill disagreed and appealed to Roosevelt, who was ill and about to die. Washington said the decision on how best to destroy the enemy's forces should be left to the Supreme Commander...
...frieze of circled ox wagons -- symbolic of the struggle of Afrikaner nationalists -- was conspicuously absent. An official muttered something about "a technical problem," though others think it will not be long before the mace, along with other totems of the old order (perhaps the hallway statues and portraits of die-hard white-supremacist heads of government), is relegated to the ash heap of history. Or maybe, less dramatically, to a museum...
...idea of history, this idealistic view." And she spoke of Camelot and gave the world an image of her husband that is still, for all the revelations of the past three decades, alive. She provided an image of herself too, perhaps more than she knew. The day before she died, a young schoolteacher in New York City who hadn't even been born when she spoke to Teddy White, told me of his shock that she was leaving us. "I thought she would be like Guinevere," he said. "I thought she would ride off on a horse, in her beautiful...
...Muscular dystrophy researchers have for the first time identified a key molecule involved in forming connections between muscle cells and neurons, thereby affording new insights into why muscle cells die in muscular dystrophy patients. The discovery opens the way to fresh approaches in treating the disease...
...aren't entirely convinced by this hypothesis, and Burrows admits that he's "going to have to keep watching it for a while to figure out what is really going on." Whether he is right or wrong, studies of the rings could eventually provide important clues about how stars die. One thing for sure: these stellar performers can go out with bangs that leave brilliant and lasting marks on the cosmos...