Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quietly Sir Stafford outlined the bleakest prospect yet conceded by a Labor Minister-a revolution in Britain's internal economy. In cold figures and concrete decisions, he laid down a program for 152 British industries: "Export or die...
...them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before the boy was shot between the eyes. ("The last day, some of the best ones die. But those alive will fast forget...
...Taylor is a man of ideas. Unlike most college presidents, who are trying to hold down bulging enrollments, he has issued a come-one-come-all invitation to students (TIME, Sept. i). Last week he sounded off on the recruiting of beefy backs and linemen to do or die (at a price) on the football field, a subject which makes most college presidents look the other way. Taylor invited the presidents of 14 other urban colleges and universities to join the University of Louisville in an out-&-out professional football league...
...decade, cancer deaths reported in the U.S. (180,000 a year) have jumped 25% (due in part to better diagnosis and a longer average life span). The delegates at St. Louis were well aware that, unless a cure is found soon, one out of eight Americans now living will die of cancer...
...clever Tom Clinch, while the rabble was bawling, Rode stately through Holborn to die at his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promis'd to pay for it when he came back...