Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prepare me, Lord, to die...
called to die...
...given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats keep on eating it, eventually die of internal bleeding. In the U.S., said Link last week, 70,000 tons of warfarin-poisoned bait have been used without a single human death and with few accidents...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare added some more dismaying figures to convince the Congress that something must be done to help the nation's colleges and universities. In addition to the 18,000 new college teachers needed each year to replace those who retire or die, the colleges must have between 180,000 and 270,000 more...
...woman (Lauren Bacall) in this picture is very competent indeed, and when she discovers that she is going to die of a heart ailment, she calmly begins to arrange her husband's domestic future for him. Naturally she does not tell him about her condition-men are such babies...