Search Details

Word: died (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Surely, if Reader Daniel is a "do or die Democrat," he should have nominated F.D.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Prague. He dropped his passport (No. 206,501) on the reception desk, wheeled abruptly and left the building. Attached to the passport was a letter. It read: "I, James Miller Robinson . . . renounce my citizenship to the United States of America." Defiantly, Robinson later told reporters : "I'd rather die than go home and shine shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Fed Up | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...drab South Side apartment in April 1948 were counting on a big haul, but all they got was $12. Just the day before, Engelhard had deposited his cash in a bank. The maddened robbers beat Engelhard over the head with an iron pipe and left him to die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Somebody Knew! | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...which has about 10 million bald or balding men, leading dermatologists say that the condition has many causes, some known, some not, some curable, some not. For ordinary baldness in which the hair follicles die, they say the best "cure" is a toupee or wig. For baldness due to trichotillomania (the compulsion to tear the hair out), the best cure is to stop tearing the hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: De Wonderkapper | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...nobody fined. As their buses banged along toward the Jail of the Lost Child, Tacuba Cemetery or Mercy Slaughterhouse, Mexicans heard as usual the consoling plunk-plunk of the minstrels' guitars, and the familiar words borne long ago by the wind that swept Mexico: // 7 am to die tomorrow, Let them kill me right away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Mobile Music | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next