Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the condemned row at Sing Sing, Squint Sheridan and Cockeye Dunn were ready to die. Danny Gentile had turned "canary" at the last minute, singing out his knowledge of New York's crime-ridden waterfront (TIME, March 7) to win life imprisonment instead of the chair. Cockeye Dunn's family wanted him to sing, too, but he refused. As for Sheridan, who had tried in court to take all the blame for the murder and had even testified that killing was "just like ordering a cup of coffee," there was never any thought of squealing...
Last May, ill and bedridden at 71, Warren calmly dictated a column to his wife: "I have cancer and I am going to die of it." Warren told his readers that he had already arranged for his funeral, but hoped that they would pay their respects while he was still alive-by contributing to cancer research. In nickels, dimes and dollars, $32,000 poured...
...amid deafening oles, minus tail and ears, the tokens awarded to a matador for an especially glorious fight against an exceptionally fine bull. Says Don Pepe, hoisting his glass of manzanilla: "You feel, perhaps, that you've helped to create something noble, something brave, which knows how to die with greatness...
...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
Peddling war plants, fishhooks, girdles and bulldozers, WAA had a peak of 58,795 workers, more than 100 offices. WAA still has on its books $1.8 billion in property, mostly real estate. Like other Washington bureaus which have outlived their usefulness, WAA will not die completely. Most of its 2,550 employees will be transferred for close-out bookkeeping chores to the new General Services Administration...