Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest single U. S. contribution to human welfare in the history of government. The success of the U. S. under that Constitution made the U. S. the hope and inspiration of most of the rest of the world. Clarence Streit is convinced that the hope will never die unless the U. S. itself loses faith in the things that made it great...
...would be willing to help the Greeks or British. Only Greece spoke out strongly. Through George A. Vlachos, Greece's leading editorialist, the Greek Government cried: "Our Army will fight on, if necessary, in Thrace as it has in Epirus, and Greece will show the world how to die as she has shown it how to fight!" But widespread Balkan reports had it that the Nazi diplomats were especially hard at work in Greece, persuading her that it was unnecessary to die. They wanted Greece, it was said, to make an "honorable" peace with Italy and allow Germany...
...Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, the Victor Symphony and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur; Victor: 10 sides; $5.50). In fine fettle, so well in the groove that you can almost see him bounding Wagneriously, Tenor Melchior gives voice to airs from Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger, Flying Dutchman, Siegfried. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joins him in the opening duet from Die Göiterdämmerung...
...maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass their latter years...
...burden; then, with their own consent, they are left on the ice. Eskimos respect each other's privacy so much that they can watch an unhappy old man strangle himself, feel they have no right to prevent him. Sometimes the old, losing the will to live, die quietly of that alone...