Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, somewhere, it will rise again, as Sister Sadie says, "in some other form." Meanwhile, they are living out the rest of their lives as Mother Ann told them to do: "As though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow...
...charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will die...
...earthworm population is declining because farmers have been scraping away the nation's topsoil for generations. The five-hearted earthworm is coldblooded, cannot survive a sudden freeze. In free-plowed fields, where the earth is laid bare (and in entire areas, like the Corn Belt), earthworms die off in great numbers each winter...
...black-bordered box that resembled a card of condolence, an editorial in the New York Post last week began: "This is an expression of sympathy to the friends and families of those of our readers who will die in [Fourth of July] accidents . . . through the carelessness of themselves or others...
...tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan magazine fiction-which is, in fact, what this novel...