Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women. Back in Hiroshima, Kiyoshi Kikawa lies in the hospital for bomb victims. His arms and back are covered with a mass growth of scar tissue called keloids. Said he last week: "Tell them in America that I would have been happy to die, but I am living with this [pointing to his back]. Something good must come of this. I now want to be sent to the U.S. so doctors can experiment with my body. It does not matter if I die so long as I can be of some use to a world of peace...
...Chandler read his statement. He had wanted to take the stand "to establish the truth of my beliefs, particularly as to the danger to my country from the conspiracy of world Jewry. My counsel thought me insane, I am not insane. . . . Time, however, will vindicate me. . . . If I must die because I dared speak the truth then let me die...
Greener Pastures. At the end of the "migrating phase," the slug contracts to a blob, and rises into the air on a long, slender stalk. After this "culmination," the mass breaks up, and about 60% of the cells resume their solitary lives; the rest die. The entire cycle takes about four days. Dr. Bonner believes that the process has some "survival value," perhaps allowing the cells to dodge inimical conditions, or helping them migrate to greener bacterial pastures...
...Dictyostelium discoideum and related Acrasiales.* One slime-mold expert, Dr. K. B. Raper, of the Department of Agriculture, discovered (among other things) that the ultimate fate of the individual amoeba depends on how quickly it joins the aggregation. Latecomers form parts of the disc which supports the stalk; they die at the final breakup. The early birds form parts of the stalk itself; they die too. Only the middle-of-the-roaders, who arrive neither late nor early, live to continue the race...
...German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said the agent...