Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Maclntyre's mind began to wander, Zamperini threatened "to report him," which brought the red-headed gunner back to normal for a few days. On the 33rd day he whispered in his agony, "How long will I last?" and Zamperini said gently, "You'll die during the night." Zamperini was a good prophet...
Another Japanese general, surrendering in the central Philippines, defiantly quoted a medieval Japanese slogan: "Shall I die, I shall live again - and again seven times to fight again - swears the warrior...
Perhaps, if he had never lived, she would have rounded out her days puttering over flowers or watching children with that shrewd pity which results from old people's knowledge that every lifetime is short, that even children do not have long to live. Now she would die, a little prematurely, on the gallows. Frau Witzler listened carefully to the sentence, hid her face in her hands, wept quietly...
...Tokashiki islet, near Okinawa, there was no sign of humility in Major Yoshi-tsugu Akamatsu. The cocky 26-year-old self-consciously patted his polished boots -"Cavalry officer, you know"-then offered to fight it out, said it would be glorious to die in battle. In the end, he surrendered...
...compelling doggedness and honesty. The cast, especially Messrs. Garfield and Clark, put it over with a notable absence of affectation. The picture's single, sustained combat sequence is keenly written and filmed, fiercely exciting, with its shrilling obbligato of the enemy's "Mreen yoo dyee (Marine, you die!) Mreen tonight yoo dyee!" set against the jabbing technical chatter of the frantically overworked machine-gun crew...