Word: died
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:30 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Die Walküre, with Soprano Helen Traubel, Tenor Lauritz Melchior...
...businesslike as his search. Johnny's fellow revolutionists try to rescue him (and are killed or captured in the attempt), not for his own sake but as a point of honor, because he is their leader. The girl (Kathleen Ryan) tries to help Johnny because she would rather die- and if need be kill him-than endure a loveless life without him. An old priest (W. G. Fay) negotiates subtly for Johnny, because he feels that his business-a dying man's soul-is the really important issue. In his journey-toward-death, Johnny does encounter moments...
...Second member of Egypt's royal family to die within a week. Her cousin, Princess Amina Bahruz Fadel, 61, was killed two days earlier in a plane crash off Terracina, Italy...
...which we must spend our days. We can think about the crust of bread symbolizing 900 calories a day, but let's think far more intently on whether we are to keep alive this vital force-about the only optimists left alive in Europe or Asia-or let it die, and with its death, let tumble the victory of progress over cruelty and degradation, won so recently...
Great empires, like old soldiers, never die; they just fade away. Britain's legacy, like Rome's, will cling for centuries to history's pages, shaping men and events. Yet to all empires comes a day of which it can be said: "At this point the scepter had passed to other hands." That day came last week to Britain...