Word: died
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Die. As he had done at the last seven U.E. conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back into the C.I.O. parlor. But, although he had collected the biggest bloc of votes since the Communists bounced him out of the U.E. presidency eight years ago, Jim Carey's words were still louder than his deeds. With mounting rage he stormed against the well-laid plans of the left-winger...
...Italy, a species of ants known as Myrmica scabrinodis, which for centuries past at this season have come to mate in nuptial flight and die by the billions near the shrine of the Madonna of the Mountain of the Ants, largely forsook their Madonna and swarmed and died instead at a Communist festival in a village on the slope. "It is," cried one Communist, "the effect of the Pope's excommunication decree...
...Communist Party in 1946, a discredited symbol of Russia's wartime policy of playing down the coming revolt of the masses, his onetime comrades gave his character a routine knifing, then abandoned him to the lonely death of a political heretic. But Browder refused to die. He hustled off to Moscow, checked into the best hotel in town, and paid a call on Molotov. Two months later Browder was back in the U.S. as American representative of three official Russian publishing houses. The Kremlin had apparently decided that Browder was a valuable option on the day when friendly cooperation...
...Then commend your soul to God, cry Viva Espana and die like a patriot...
...Vietnam Union is helping "students (or their families) who fail victims of French atrocities or violence, or who die in the battlefield . . . (and) by means of lectures, dramas, musical concerts. . . working to raise the people's consciousness regarding the notions of independence, democracy...