Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse, Sunshine, to the basement of a livery stable, stunned the animal with a hammer blow, and set about carving up the carcass. When Hawkins' project to send meat to Europe was interrupted by police, he explained: "With the coming of winter, I was convinced that thousands would die...
...eight men, France's labor troubles last week brought a few more days of life. They were murderers, condemned to die by the guillotine. The official executioner, Jules Desfourneaux, went on a one-man strike and refused to execute them. Desfourneaux was holding out for a 15% raise and a bonus for each severed head...
Said a Chinese businessman of another, perhaps even more crucial, deficit: "It takes a cause and a strong conviction to be willing to die. Our soldiers don't have it. It's simply the old story of haves and havenots. The Communists convince their troops that they are fighting to get something, the Nationalist troops don't know what they're fighting...
...loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead of die...
...murmur ran through the court which was horrified. ... In effect, the young man was saying, 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time,' and the strength of his desire to die was forcing his weak voice through his shuddering lips and ignoring his pain, which was great, for he was blasted by what he did. He was like an insect that falls on a hot stove and is withered, and what he did felt like an act of cruelty to the whole court. It rejected the life that...