Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they understood it. This was the first fact of war, the potential fact that every American had steeled himself against; the fact which Americans, generally, had found that they had to accept, and were accepting. After it would come the other facts, and the questions: Why did he die? For what cause...
...months ago a quetzal, rare and beautiful national bird of Guatemala, was brought to Guatemala City and put on exhibition in the zoo. The people were indignant; the quetzal, their symbol of freedom, was said to die if imprisoned.* They waited. Sure enough, the quetzal died. The people nodded their heads...
There Is Worse. . . . Prisoner interviews indicated that most of the soldiers fighting for Germany were not so much hired mercenaries as men under compulsion. For them it was fight-or die in labor battalions and prison camps. Many seemed brutish peasants, long trained as soldiers, used to obeying orders. Foreign elements were estimated at 15% to 20% of the German Army...
...also of the possible fatal effects of delay, notably the problem of security, and the morale of troops already aboard ship, poised and ready. Finally he said what all were waiting to hear: "In view of all these factors, I think we had better go ahead." The die was cast. The meeting had taken just half an hour. With one characteristically casual sentence General Eisenhower loosed the fateful lightning that will stab and flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation...
...cider-drinking oldster saying "We never thought you would come. I
was in bed with my wife when we heard the bombardment. I said to her,
we can die downstairs or we can die upstairs. We may just as well die
in bed!"