Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakfast. The troops somnambulated in. A few had already made themselves ready, had melted pellets of green dye and smeared their faces. One of these had applied an imaginative swirl of green across his face, leaving an eerie eye and half a mouth. 'I want them to die laughing,' he explained...
...these 14 words, the German Command last week admitted a grave defeat, the possibility of a graver disaster. The Dnieper line, on which Hitler had ordered his army to stand or die, was pierced. Now the Germans faced a long and costly retreat, the calamitous political echoes of defeat...
Said the Rev. Wilfrid R. Johnson of Truro: "People in these days 'pass away' or 'reach port.' They do not die. Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...
...famed policymaker, Alfred P. Sloan, made an address to the Detroit Economic Club. Before he stopped talking, Alfred Sloan had ranged over the whole spectrum of postwar problems facing U.S. industry. His pro-competition, pro-full employment, pro-internationalism views are by now standard for all but the most die-hard Old Guardsmen. But almost buried in his long speech was a concrete new thought about how private industry might re-examine its own fiscal policies...
Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die...