Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love you, 'til the day I die...
...Colonel escapes censure for bad taste by taking attention away from the common plight of the two central characters, shifting it to their conflicting philosophies. "In life, there are always two possibilities," asserts Jacobowsky, to which the Colonel replies, "There is only one--to die with honor...
...coaches lay 35 ft. under water. The third coach, hooked on a bridge abutment, dangled crazily at 80°. Down in the second coach, Broker Land, a nonswimmer, drifted to a small air pocket at the top of the coach and filled his lungs. "What a lousy way to die." he thought. Then he found a window, kicked it out, and surged suddenly up to the surface and a helicopter's rescue line...
...pretty, bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh...
...that made her beloved in old age-as when she trudged determinedly in George II's Coronation procession and "seized a drum from a drummer and blithely sat down on it [to rest]." Once, when the doctor whispered to an assistant, "She must be blistered or she will die," he heard the 80-year-old matriarch bellow back: "I won't be blistered and I won't die...