Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life as disjointed as the visions of a fever: a 16-year-old boy, running away with two girls, 15 and 14, confessed killing a North Carolina carpenter because he wanted his automobile . . . in Raleigh, N.C., an obstreperous elephant, being put out of its misery, refused to die, sagged on its legs for 40 minutes while a prison warden pumped over 100 shots into it with a submachine gun . . . in Boston, showgirls demonstrated the V for Victory campaign and, incidentally, the unreality of the nation's feeling about the war, by posing in V costumes for the press...
Together they went into Calgary from Keoma, the little Alberta town where Victor Ramberg struggled to make a living as a grain-elevator salesman. Victor Ramberg bought two lengths of hose pipe. Next day, after dissuading his wife from wanting to die with the baby, he attached the hose to the exhaust of his 1935 Hudson, put the other end in the child's crib, started the motor...
...asked whether she spoke English: "You go to hell! I'm plain Mrs. Bernstorff. I'm no Countess any longer and you can drop the von, too. This is America and we don't go in for that title stuff. ... I have come home to die...
When the deciduous (non-evergreen) leaf begins to die and disintegrate, the molecules of its unstable green pigment, chlorophyll, disappear. Its departure reveals the yellow carotene and xanthophyll which have been present but masked by the green all summer...
...rays are literally death rays. A man ex posed to strong enough fays for a few minutes would die within a few months. A few seconds' exposure could cause temporary and possibly permanent sexual sterility, as well as severe blood changes. These and other effects can be cumulative, picked up fatally second by second through several years. The machines at G.E. are housed in windowless buildings with 18-inch concrete walls to keep any death-dealing X-rays from getting out, and every worker in this laboratory carries an X-ray plate strapped to his wrist to give warning...