Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electric Way. Traditionally, dies and similar metal products have been made by the slow process of grinding away the metal to fit a pattern. Using the Elox method, a die shape can be formed first in wood or plaster, then sprayed with a soft metal. When the metal hardens, it is used as an electrode, i.e., conducts the electric current. When the electrode is placed close to a piece of metal and the current applied, the metal is vaporized to the same shape as the electrode pattern. With this process the hardest metals have been shaped as easily as cast...
...Professor Greg was an old hand at departmental politics, but he was also a great scholar. About to die, Greg decided to play a splendid little joke on the "academic community." The story, which carries a subtle overtone of Shavian irony, took place at a fictional university, but the characters are familiar: the smooth and politic department chairman, the impressive "Great Ideas" lecturer with little scholarship in his background, the pale, imitative young instructor. Perhaps the tale is not entirely uninteresting to officers and students of Harvard University...
Then one morning he was dead. He had come down his porch stairs, green book bag in hand, and fallen slowly onto the sidewalk. When a passing student had reached him he was already dead. It was an ironic season for him to die. Autumn had come, and registration for classes had just begun. There was a large funeral procession, which included the business manager of the University and the gray-haired librarian who worked at the circulation desk, as well as the entire department. Briggs, Ford, and Hall were among the pallbearers. Even after classes had been going...
...blues, and shudders at thoughts of "the fat woman," as she calls death, she likes to cab past Tiffany's and "breakfast" on its jeweled serenity, or else crawl out on her fire escape with her cat and sing "Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures...
...sordid falls his crisp, clean prose. At the end of Breakfast, Holly's whereabouts are unknown and she may even be dead and "travelin' through the pastures of the sky." But her fate is really written in her dialogue. Bad little good girls like Holly Golightly never die; they go to Broadway, where Julie Harris plays them...