Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon in the jail's new death chamber atop the south wing. There, in a small room on an old, wooden chair behind a glass partition separating them from official witnesses, six of the spies, their heads in rubber masks with nose-and-mouth slits, had sat to die. Four executioners pulled the switches; in an hour and 20 minutes it was all over...
...served as a World War I training ship, escorted transports for General William Sidney Graves's Siberian expedition in 1918. Decommissioned after World War I, she was supposed to become a Portland public monument (like the Constitution in Boston). But now her metal is too precious: she must die in a junk yard...
...State for India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
...world's memory of Canadians in battle is a bright memory. The Canadians of World War I seemed to shine out of the blood and muck, the dreary panorama of trench warfare. They seemed to kill and to die with a special dash and lavishness. In a war and at a time when glory had almost lost its meaning, when the word was a travesty upon the heaping millions of the dead, the Canadians in France kept the sheen of glory...
...land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need to kill in honorable duel...