Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody beachhead-crouching behind the seawall and putting down on paper from minute to minute everything he saw and heard and felt, determined that the least he could do for the men battling around him was to record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon be one of those to die-and Raider Chief Evans Carlson wrote us later to express his "very genuine admiration" for Sherrod's "courage, fortitude and superb aplomb...
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Bitterly, onetime Vichy Minister Pierre Pucheu had cried, "La comédie est finie!" when an Algiers military court condemned him to death for treason (TIME, March 20). Last week a higher tribunal denied him a new trial. No final clemency came from the somber Chief of State, General Charles de Gaulle, himself under sentence of death by the Vichy Government Pierre Pucheu had served...
...Laval decree the legislature's virtual death. Edouard Herriot, with venerable Senate President Jules Jeannenez, broke silence. To Chief of State Pétain he sent a solemn, indignant protest: "You have substituted unlimited dictatorship for guarantees that all civilized nations grant. . . . It is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth...
...desperate, 23-year-old girl in a mental hospital tried to kill herself last fall with the only weapon at hand, a 2½-in. sewing needle. She succeeded in getting it be tween her ribs and into her heart, but she did not die. Though the needle was a constant threat to her life, doctors let it alone for a month until the patient became calm enough to undergo an operation. X rays, meanwhile, showed that the needle was working its way through the tough heart muscle...