Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although die-hard labor-baiters still vowed that they would finally abolish the 40-hour week, the battle (TIME, March 30) seemed to have lapsed into a temporary truce...
...take the oath of the guerrilla in all true faith. . . . If necessary I will die for my country. So help...
Replied Guerrillissimo Arnold: "That spy and sniper business doesn't bother us. We've taken an oath. . . . We'd rather die [fighting] than have a bayonet run through us like they got in Hong Kong...
...Factories which can turn out 1,000 instruments of war a week are only turning out 500. Why? Because there is a law which says men should work only 40 hours a week. . . . Is there a law which says our sons must fight only 40 hours a week or die only 40 hours a week?'' Wrath swept the South "like a prairie fire." Citizens held meetings, wrote to Washington...
...wealth of information and insight worked as much against as for her. She became less a guide than a sensation. They called her Cassandra, forgetting that it was not Cassandra but the Trojans who would not listen to her who made the big mistake. For France did not die merely of the wounds inflicted by murderers and traitors. France died first of the deafness, blindness, dumbness and frivolity which are the proud hallmarks of the skeptical civilized mind...