Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read that extraordinary communication from Arthur Cremin in TIME'S Letters column last week? Its most memorable sentence was this: "To hell with all mankind when, through indifference to the great men who alleviate pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
...white man said that he had done a crime. He was sentenced to die. Baffled by white man's law, he could only suggest: "I have cattle. Take them in payment for the crime...
...hell with all mankind when, because of its indifference to the great men who alleviate its pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
...hungers and doubts of people everywhere found expression in the keen, forthright London Observer: "It is no idle curiosity that looks for the fuller pattern of peace. It is for peace that our men will shortly die. ... It is for peace that the deaths and pains of Europe's peoples cry out. And peace is not just the end of fighting; it is a way of living together...
Should Grandmother Die Alone? In the fantastic world of which Author Seghers writes, this strange story does not seem fantastic. For Transit is filled with the weird reality of the flight of thousands of refugees to U.S. consulates that wielded a power of life & death over them. Day after day the refugees stand in endless lines, waiting for the precious documents with their bindings of red tape. Incessantly they discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they...