Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to die was Kelly's pal, William Wenzel. Then the cook, with $163 in his pockets, stepped casually over the bulwarks, remarking: "I'm just going across the street to get some pineapples." Another shipmate, dying, begged: "Just leave my mouth open when I'm gone so that I can get plenty of water...
...tried to swim ashore. One ate a jellyfish and jumped screaming over the side. Another, in demented fury before he died, tossed the one bucket of rain water overboard. They agreed to hold each body a day to make sure that death was real. By the third week only Kelly and another mess boy were left. When his sidekick gave up, Kelly waited 36 hours before he tossed him overboard. "After that," he said, "I laid down and tried to make myself comfortable, hoping that I could die without any more trouble." He was lying there waiting for death when...
...Their equipment was pitiful; they had nothing except the courage of lions and some baling wire," he continued. "Some of their planes were so ancient that our oldest officers had forgotten what models they were. But they went up cheerfully. They knew they were going to die, but they knew they had a chance to knock off some Japs first. And, believe me, they killed a lot of Japs...
...soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...
...were bombed tonight, the people of the city would not know what to do. . . . There would be hysterical people, people who would actually die from fear, standing up. . . . Very few people burn to death. They are scared to death...