Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game rallies, a kind of Nürnberg spectacle on many campuses, usually proved duds at Harvard. Only once a year did the mask of indifference drop-the weekend that Harvard met Yale. Then past Crimson heroes, old and out-of-shape, revisited Cambridge to talk do-or-die. This year, Harvard had imported Art Valpey (formerly one of Fritz Crisler's aides at Michigan), and the old order changed...
...great friendship between men 31 years apart lasted 21 years-until the day Boswell received a letter from Johnson's physician, telling how Johnson died. But for Boswell he never died. He once dreamed that Johnson came back to earth and told him how terrible it was to die. "There, sir," replied Boswell, "is the difference between us. You have got that happily over...
...die, too weak to creep into the grave...
...Brown House, the crumbled cornerstone of Naziism, the U.S. Military Government runs Germany's biggest publishing plant. Once its giant presses spewed forth Hitler's venomous Völkischer Beobachter; now they supply Germans with news of a democratic flavor. No force-feeding is needed: Die Neue Zeitung, a thrice-weekly paper; Heute, a picture magazine; Der Monat, a political monthly; and Neue Auslese, a cultural digest, all sell like piping-hot Kartoffelpuffer...
...Die Neue Zeitung, the U.S. Military Government's prize package, is the New York Times of Germany. No paper has greater influence; only Die Welt (circ. 900,000), sponsored by the British military government, is bigger. The Zeitung subscribes to A.P., U.P., I. N.S. and Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation...