Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...binding in Hong Kong courts, proxy weddings are legal, and senior relatives may sponsor them. But under cross-examination last week, sister-in-law Yip admitted that she had not really used a rooster as Wat's proxy. Yip explained that she feared that the rooster would die before Wat returned-certainly an ill omen for Wat's marital bliss with Chan. Therefore Wat had been represented at the ceremony by a more durable cakebox...
...parched town of Juàzeiro do Norte, where funerals can be bought for 4?. "We have twelve children to bury every day. It used to be one or two." Health officials estimated that in the worst drought areas half of all children under a year old would die...
...with Nixon, most came down with splitting headaches and failing memories. Hardest hit was Associated Press Photographer Henry Griffin, 46, who had to take deep draughts from a heavy oxygen tank he toted on his back. Cracked Griffin: "Let's get off this hill -I want to die breathing...
...several are retired government officials) rise at 4 a.m. and go to bed at 9 p.m., spend the day in prayers, lectures, exercises and devotional chants, plus the chorusing of such slogans as "Help Raise India" and "The Way to Godhood Is to Be Good, Do Good and Die...
...insist on fishing for saltwater monsters with "rope." He explains, between oaths: "Most fishermen aren't strong enough to handle 39-thread (130-lb. test line) and keep pressure on a fish. I've seen them taken off the boat dead or go back home and die of a heart attack. Secondly, rope doesn't give the fish a fair chance. If you can't fish for fun, then you haven't any business fishing. These guys out after publicity give me a pain in the neck...