Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeamish . . ." began the arch-Republican New York Sun in a front-page editorial one day last week. "It is convention, not the Constitution . . . which forbids open comment on the possibility that a President may be succeeded by his Vice President. . . . Six Presidents . . . have died in office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...
Blue blood has flowed as red from Britain's war wounds as any other kind of blood. For Britain's peers understand one prerequisite for those who would rule a democratic empire-they know how to die for it. Of all England's foreign wars, World War I took the heaviest toll of blue blood. World War II's toll may be even heavier...
...Lord Shuttleworth, 26, captain Royal Artillery, killed in action last year. The third Baron Shuttleworth, he was also the third of his family to die in battle. His father was killed in World War I; his brother was killed in the Battle of Britain...
...more likely to inherit physical defects; a third more of them are blind; eight times as many are colorblind; hemophilia is exclusively a male disease. Although women have a 20% higher illness rate in almost every disease, men have a much higher death rate (an exception: 40% more women die during the course of dementia praecox...
...limits, to live "riotously, with the throng." Once, when a friend tried in vain to dissuade him from living with a French prostitute, Dowson said gravely: "Our association is like that of Robert and Mrs. Browning.'' In 1900, aged 33, he went home to London to die...