Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women, prodded by the dress manufacturers, draped their figures in the New Look which, like all new fashions, was becoming only to the stylish. Race prejudice still showed its ugly head. Senator Bilbo .was stopped at the door of Congress and went back to the South to die, but Willie Earle was lynched in Greenville, S.C., and 31 men who were tried for the crime were freed...
...week from. Director General Sir John Boyd Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization who warned, in a year's-end report to the United Nations, that there will continue to be "a food shortage of world magnitude. During the coming year, many in Europe and Asia will die from the direct or indirect effects of food shortage...
...brain and arteries in middle-and old-age. At least 4,000,000 people in the U.S. now have heart disease, said Dr. Bortz. Unless something is done to stop it, said Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of the University of Illinois, half the babies born in 1940 will eventually die of various types of degenerative diseases of the circulatory system and kidneys...
...only represents the keystone of happiness and the hallmark of success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...
...disease is so contagious, and so feared, that the U.S. will not permit the virus to be brought in even for research. Infected cattle develop mouth sores, lameness; they waste away, often die...