Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SCORES WINNING CRIMSON TOUCHDOWN ON LINE PLUNGE." It would be blazoned at the top of every sports page in the country. There might even be a picture of Vag, his face horribly contorted in a do-or-die grimace pressing his hand firmly into a prostrate opponent's face. And then walking across the Yard, he would hear the whispers of the awed Freshmen, "There he goes--Stonewall Vag they call him." Of course being a hero was convenient, but best of all it would mean the removal of a cross he had been bearing--none too regularly...
...best fitted to resuscitate people, to bring them out of unconsciousness," insists Dr. Flagg, "is the man who already knows how to put them in." He takes as a personal challenge the fact that over 50,000 people die every year in the U.S. of asphyxiation. For years his Society for the Prevention of Asphyxial Death has been working, despite a lack of funds, for a wider knowledge of resuscitation techniques by laymen and especially doctors...
...powerful directness, the play gives it meaning for each individual. A pleasant relief from the "all out" slush with which some business men, women's clubs, and just plain slackers rationalize their existence, it shows plainly that this "global" struggle is still a war in which young men chiefly die, and young women chiefly weep...
...special drum signature, like a radio program's theme song-a cryptic sentence full of jungle implications. Sample drum names: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing"; "The giant wood rat has no child, the house rat has no child"; "You'll die of witchcraft at midnight." Messages are addressed simply by tapping out the recipient's drum name. The sender's drum name follows, then the message...
...home, send a message to his wife to come in from her garden in the jungle and feed him. Message in drum code: "She is better than the daughter of other tribes, she who stands there. Oyono must not join the fighting, I don't want Oyono to die. Come walk quickly, quickly, I feel hunger not small." Dinner will be waiting when he gets home...