Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After being prematurely pronounced dead many times, at midnight on June 30 the once-controversial Works Projects Administration finally did die. During its nine embattled years the depression agency spent approximately $10,468,249,000 (enough to pay for 40 days of the present war), giving both useful and use less jobs to 8,500,000 U.S. unemployed...
Collins argued that it was unfair of Schlieben to surrender himself, leaving his men to fight, many of them to die. Schlieben persisted: his experience in Russia had taught him the value of delaying tactics by small, holdout groups. Joe Collins set his long jaw, dismissed them. They were driven away, past grinning M.P.s. The mop-up went...
...When I die I'll call together all the devils and wrestle them in a three-inch rivulet...
...sight of the armies made Arjuna weep. It was senseless (and sinful) that so many men should die for his earthly glory. To Krishna, Arjuna recited the evils of war as they have always been known to men who have always made wars. "O Krishna," he cried, "at the sight of these my kinsmen assembled here eager to give battle, my limbs fail and my mouth is parched . . . . I desire neither victory nor empire nor even any pleasure. . . . I would not kill though they should kill me. . . . Far better would it be for me if [they] should slay...
...indweller, are said to have an end. Fight, therefore. . . . He who looks on the Self as the slayer, and he who looks on the Self as the slain-neither of these apprehends aright. The Self slays not, nor is slain. It is never born nor does It ever die, nor, having once been, does It again cease to be. Unborn, eternal, permanent, and primeval, It is not slain when the body is slain...