Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something for the Boys. While waiting for him to die, and waiting their turn to shout the play-by-play into the hall telephone, souvenir-hunting correspondents helped themselves to everything that was loose. One pried the bullet out of the back of Tojo's chair. A photographer hobbled off with a samurai sword inside his pants leg, but an officer stopped him. "We stood around," Lee recalls, "smoking and talking and making bets on how soon Tojo's small chest would stop heaving." After two hours an Army doctor arrived...
When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys die...
Calculated Policy. The ex-President testified to the necessity of the War Department's $725 million request to carry on the occupation of Korea, Japan, Germany and Austria. Said he: "These enormous sums are inescapable for the next year unless millions of people under our Lags are to die of starvation." But the problem was bigger than any single staggering bill for aid. U.S. aid might forestall successive emergencies; it could not solve the world economic crisis. In time the continuous financial hemorrhage must debilitate U.S. economy. This, Hoover implied, was Russia's calculated policy...
Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, Missouri-born English poet, publisher since 1923 of "The Criterion" of London. Doctor of Letters. Citation: "Once again the English speaking peoples hall a religious and learned poet whose words the world will not willingly let die...
Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...