Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sardonic. There is a tramp who lives on baked potatoes and slugs of brandy. There is an alcoholic street singer, a kind of turn-of-the-century Bing Crosby ("Boo-boobooboo-boo"). And there is Grandma from Sweden who chews pipe dottle and comes to Denmark fully intending to die, but lives on to plague and embarrass the boy's mother with her unhousebroken back-country habits...
Mayo stated that one of the primary objectives of the Association is the determination of the causes of premature births, which account for half of all infant deaths. Each year 160,000 infants die during and after birth, Mayo said. These deaths comprise ten per cent of the total mortality rate in the United States...
Johnny-Come-Lately. Back in Hollywood, Johnny cannily saved the letters. His own notes were fourth-grader's work; many of them, laboriously scratched in copy books, were never sent, e.g.: You know Baby, I'm so lonesome for the touch of you I could die. I try to think back of when you were here and those precious minutes I wasted when my lips were not on yours...
...band was helped little by a welter of panoramic views of its members, a well-intended effort by NBC to avoid a favorite TV bromide: closeup shots of musicians' tortured faces. Swing succeeded chiefly in establishing that Goodman's big-band brand of swing will probably never die because it has never been very much alive, will still be played in all those softly lit hotel restaurants for people who would rather dance than listen...
Despite Castro's lack of success, however, Batista is in an unenviable position. Strongmen who die in bed usually do so in exile. If he is smart, Batista would like very much to retire again as he did in 1944; he is once again rich. He is not running in the general election scheduled for November 30, and the Batista-supported candidate--Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero--has been campaigning as a "great compromiser," promising political amnesty for rebels. Rivero may be sincere; if he is, Castro and his men are wasting their time, for Batista will be giving constitutional...