Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began thinking of his knife, out of reach in the car. He wondered if he could cut off his arm. He picked up a sliver of glass, cut himself with it, and then stopped, suddenly afraid that he might bleed to death. He decided that he would die in the end anyhow. It seemed odd. He was only 26. He had been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland. He scratched a note...
...state put paved highways through the Ramapos. Soon the woods were full of artists, Boy Scouts, welfare workers, summer cottages. A mountain man couldn't sing a ballad to himself, like "If life was a thing that money could buy, The rich would live and the poor would die," without somebody pouncing on it as something wonderful that was 500 years old and came straight from England...
...ever heard his shamelessly sentimental braying of Tin Pan Alley ballads would believe it, but to hear Al Jolson tell it, he still has stage fright. Said he: "I die every time I go on the stage. . . . What's the use of falling on my face?" He didn't have to. At 61, Mammy-Man Jolson was in the chips. Two years ago he was sick, and though not broke, afraid that he soon might be. He had developed an abscessed lung while entertaining troops overseas, and ended up in a Los Angeles hospital. When he recovered, Hollywood...
State's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs had asked for $31 million. It got nothing. Unless the Senate showed mercy and intervened, the much criticized Voice of America radio programs and other OIC projects were due to die. OIC had been given a thorough examination by Nebraska's hardheaded, hard-working Karl Stefan, chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee. He concluded that it was extravagantly operated, overstaffed with aliens, and-worst of all-pretty ineffective. Secretary Marshall disagreed. But to Karl Stefan, it seemed as if $31 million worth of food shipped to Europe would...
...this two-hour-plus marathon there is perhaps the bloodiest climax in a long, long time-heroine and hero shoot each other full of holes, only to suddenly find that they are madly in love. Bathed in Technicolor gore, they crawl across a pile of rocks to die in each others arms...