Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the I.W.W. opposed World War I, the Wobblies were hunted as spies and lynched as saboteurs. Big Bill Haywood, jailed for sedition, jumped bail and fled to die in Russia. The Wobblies' onetime membership of 100,000 gradually dwindled away...
...clear that the political factor was the deciding one, but the uncertain international situation had also weighed heavily. Now the Crossroads' chiefs wondered whether their big show would ever come off, or whether it might not be tabled sine die...
...gypsies used to ride gaily up to the grim gates, never suspecting where they were being taken. They sang their racy songs until the very last minute-when they suddenly realized, without understanding, that they were in a concentration camp and that they had to die...
...order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites die...
Reductions of tutorial in all but one College department are intended to be permanent, the report revealed, and are the result of an administrative policy of allowing the system to die by a process of "slow starvation...