Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus ready for floor action under special committee-bypassing rules, despite insistent protests of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the bill ought to go through the normal committee channel. If sent to committee so late in the session, the bill would die there, and that is just what the N.A.M. and the Chamber want. Reason: they object to half a dozen minor Taft-Hartley revisions, e.g., requiring employers to report to the Labor Department all financial dealings with labor unions or labor officials. As for reforming unions, the bill is only "half...
...could love till I die...
...KING MUST DIE (338 pp.)-Mary Renault-Pantheon...
...structure came from the past but the sense of it was all in the present-which is the essence of parable. To re-create the past as past is merely archaeology or entertainment, or both. Author Mary (The Last of the Wine) Renault's The King Must Die (a midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club choice) is both, but she is a better literary archaeologist than an entertainer. Her myth is the Theseus legend and she is all too faithful...
...Giving is living," said Parkin Christian, 74, great-great-grandson of Mutiny on the Bounty's Fletcher Christian. Rugged (6 ft. 3 in.) ex-Magistrate Christian heads the Adventist Church on Pitcairn Island (in the South Pacific), whose inhabitants are all Adventists. "If only receiving," he added, "you die...