Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words. Del Rich pulled his wife from under the boat, and they clawed to shore, watching father and mother bob downstream. Exhausted and distraught, they prayed. Then they limped upstream over sharp limestone, looking for help. "Someone will come," said Penney. "We were not saved from the water to die on the shore...
FRAGMENTING land into small holdings clashes head on with the trend toward efficient, big-scale farming with machinery. Essential for modern grain cultivation, big-scale farming is also useful in sugar; Puerto Rico tried and let die a 500-acre limit on sugar farms. By turning his agrarian reform against bigness rather than inefficiency, Castro may well scare off all U.S. capital and thereby slow Cuba's growth toward a diversified economy. As Mexico and Puerto Rico have proved, diversification provides new jobs and takes most of the fire away from the land-reform issue. Only 55% of Mexico...
...racial discrimination that has no more real significance, under the circumstances of the story, than a hotfoot in hell. Adam and Eve fall in love, but Adam refuses to accept the fact. He cannot begin a new world because he cannot forget the old; he cannot let social injustice die with the society that fostered it. At this point the moviemakers introduce a particularly amiable snake into their unedifying Eden. A cultivated white man (Mel Ferrer) wanders into town; and of course he too falls in love with the heroine...
...Berliners' own name for themselves is "die Insulaner"-the islanders. Implicit in the phrase is an awareness of living in a world that for all practical purposes has an area of only 186 square miles. (The unpredictability of the East German police, which discourages most West Berliners from venturing into "the Zone," bears particularly hard on warm summer weekends when the road to the city's one big public resort, the suburban lake of Wannsee, is jammed with virtually every car in Berlin...
Physicians who are overconfident of germ-killing wonder drugs are living in a fool's paradise where their patients may die. This is a favorite theme of Boston's Dr. Maxwell Finland. Most doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections...