Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bunch of 7.65 shells hidden in his bathroom. But in the end, the evidence was too much. Still the compleat caïd, who would show neither pity nor remorse, Bill made a detailed confession, blandly explained: "I knew she could never pay the fine, so she had to die." Later, as he posed triumphantly for newsmen, swaggering Georges Rapin turned to his captors and said, "No hard feelings," and then congratulated them on a "fine investigation...
...peaceful depths of the unit, ordinary gravitation prevails. Stars are born, grow old, and die, and planets revolve around them. But the galactic units themselves must flee from one another. They were formed out of matter that was fleeing, and they must continue to flee. They are like jigsaw puzzles put together on a moving train. They must move in the same way that their unassembled pieces were moving...
...excess weight and diabetes, gall-bladder trouble, and diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys. Already evident, he said, is that in both sexes after 65, blood pressure goes up with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook for thin persons is more favorable." That average weights are so much less in the most aged might indicate that these individuals have...
...quietly excellent. The collection has its soft spots-notably a story pointedly titled The Stranger, which tells, in the manner of Camus at his most somber, of a rich man, cut off from society by a standard brand of spiritual malaise, who comes to a strange town to die and melodramatically does. But the high spots outnumber the soft ones. In a class with Nadine Gordimer (Six Feet of the Country, A World of Strangers), Author Jacobson, 30-year-old white South African who now lives in England, has emerged as one of the troubled continent's best novelists...
...that she leaves. Some readers may object that such mysticism is too woolly, but few of them will complain that Author Spark's funerary satire lacks bite. Any reader over 25-the age at which, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, a man realizes that he must die-will have an uneasy time forgetting this memento...