Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...femininity: pregnant women get a month off work with half pay.) Even the old folks, for whom the commune has established "Happy Homes," are kept busy with scheduled chores, such as feeding the chickens. And in at least one Kwangtung commune, when the inhabitants of the Happy Homes die, their bodies are dropped into a chemically treated pool and converted to fertilizer...
Produced at the request of Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, the half-hour program (Public Enemy) used facts and figures collected in 200 localities to show that air pollution may hasten death. "Out of every 100,000 people living on farms and in small towns, fewer than 15 will die of cancers in the respiratory system," said Dr. Richard A. Prindle, head of the U.S. Public Health Service's Air Pollution Medical Program. But in smogtowns "the death column doubles...
...heroine's accomplices, who meet the same fate as she does. Well then, what is it? To judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser...
...FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE (212 pp.) -Richard Hough-Viking...
...Die. Drawing on captured Russian letters and diaries, naval attaches' dispatches and newspaper accounts, Author Hough manages to move ubiquitously around the fleet and delivers a harrowing, heroic account of the battleships' most trying hours. "You wish us victory, but there will be no victory," mumbled Captain Bukhvostoff of the battleship Alexander III. "But we will know how to die, and we shall never surrender...