Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave up writing," says Garvin, "I suppose I should die." He has signed a fat contract to write a weekly piece for Beaverbrook's Sunday Express-"but without the Asterisks" (a Garvinesque pun). Meanwhile, although the Observer was mum on the subject, the possible new editor of the Observer was Arthur Mann, BBC governor and ex-editor of the Yorkshire Post, which first cracked open the Wally Simpson scandal in Britain...
...beginning of the war, Knapp revealed, many of the rumors were of the so-called "wishful" type, optimistic stories that Hitler would die within a year, that Germany would be defeated, and a hundred and one other topics that people wanted to hear...
Others began to die. "We all dreaded night to come on." a survivor said. "It was colder at night. Several men tried to jump overboard, but we kept them inside. When they died we had to throw the bodies overboard. Sharks came close, waiting. We shouted, we made noises, we did whatever we could to scare them off. The men's lips were swollen and cracked, and once when it rained we tried to catch a few drops of rain on the tongue." Total hours...
...later a rival began to work them. In Panama he found gold, but could not get the metal out. With worm-riddled ships he tried to make the Spanish settlement on Haiti. He was forced to beach the boats on Jamaica, wait for months while rescuers, hoping he would die, refused to take...
...Author Oppenheim was born at the right time, he made the same mistake as his age-he did not die at the right time. Shortly before Neville Chamberlain began commuting to Germany, Oppenheim and his wife bought the Domaine of Notre Dame, a small, hill-hugging, seaward-looking piece of Provence which they had long loved and where they expected to end their days. They were growing old. Then something happened which would never happen in a well-contrived Oppenheim novel-the Nazis swarmed into northern France. The refugees swarmed into southern France. It was like a badly directed...