Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catch phrase for French defeatists on the eve of World War II was "Die For Danzig?," the title of an article by right-wing Socialist Marcel Dêat. Last week Defeatist Dêat was ready to die for Danzig, Berlin and all way stations. With other leaders of France's Fascist-minded Rassemblement National Populaire he enlisted to fight with the Nazis in Russia...
...fluosilicate. Into the Nevada-Utah mountains the pilots fly until they see below them tumultuous marching armies of brown insects, so dense that they look like waves of molasses. Diving within 50 feet of the crags, the pilots drop their poisoned bait. The goggle-eyed, wingless crickets stop, eat, die-95% of them on warm days, 75% on cool days (when they are idler, less hungry...
...came out with a startling estimate: total economic blockade by Washington and London would cripple Japanese industry within six months. The Japanese Islands (where 98,000,000 people live in 260,770 square miles) are almost barren of the raw materials of modern industry, must import or die...
...days later, Warden Clinton Duffy was told that a committee of convicts requested an interview. The committee filed into his office, stated their request: that one of them should die in the Duchess' place. They handed the warden a solemn petition...
...what it was to walk all day behind a plow pulled by a restless team; to pick corn with cold fingers and an aching back, to spread manure by hand, to shock wheat all day under a hot sun. He knew that hogs could suddenly stop getting fat and die of cholera; that if they didn't die they could sell so cheaply there was no profit in the year's long work. He wanted to do something about that. He wanted to help make farm life better...