Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever come to see Negro Isaac Richardson, 28, no one had ever written him a letter. But the State had not forgotten him, nor the murder he had committed during a holdup. Last week the warden notified him that time had come for him to die. Said Isaac Richardson: "This is a bright sunny day for some people but not for me." When he went to the electric chair, he said nothing...
...belonged for damages rendered, and let the matter go at that, for the present at least. Secondly, by his drastic action upon Hodder, he has laid Harvard needlessly open to the abuse of the sporting world as represented by the public press. Had the affair been publicly left to die a natural death, the course taken by Princeton authorities whose athletes and coach shared in the Placid debacle, a far from unusual collegiate happening would have met its merited fate...
...characters "Father" and "Mother" in the soft sand. Then I erased them and wrote the names of my wife and children. I touched the good-luck omen my mother had given me and I thought of her prayers for my safety. . . . I murmured: "I don't want to die. Can nothing help me?" I put my hand on my heart as though to stop its pounding and told myself that this was not fear. But I was apologizing to myself. For that's what it was-fear...
Glorying in the bitter weather that Germans found nearly unbearable, the Russians continued their systematic pressure against Novgorod and the siege of Leningrad. Encircled and facing annihilation were German defenders of Mozhaisk, last Nazi stand within Moscow's defense area. A "surrender or die" ultimatum was tendered to them and rejected. The Russians recaptured Maloyaroslavets, where Tsar Alexander's Imperial Army almost captured Napoleon. An offensive on the Oka River cut down the crack tank Army of Colonel General Heinz Guderian, broodingly handsome pioneer of modern mechanized warfare. Russian forces cut his Panzers to shreds, took vast supplies...
...Treckers know it will take more than subcontracting to keep their company where it is. A saucy baby, K. & T. is also a war baby. So the Treckers-who have held on to their 50% stock interest-are preparing for peace. Their best preparation: a milling machine to make dies at one-half of their present hand-tailored cost. A U.S. at peace could use die-cast plastics, compositions and light metals in fabulous amounts...