Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissioner understand why he had wrecked his apartment. He had not acted from remorse, sadism or simple vandalism, wrote Clé, but "because I do not want to leave anything to our French government, which is leading the nation to its ruin. . . I believe it is better to die quickly, rather than suffer slow death in the chaos of modern democracy...
...Communists he had permitted to flourish so freely, Sihanouk told the convention, "are going to cut my throat." With a nod in the direction of both Red China and Communist North Viet Nam, he declared: "If the moment comes when we must die or be taken over by the Communists, we will accept inevitable death with the conviction that we have not betrayed our country." It was his most forthright anti-Communist speech to date. Sihanouk added: "Many countries have not believed in the mortal danger of Communism, and then, when the evidence became clear to them...
...said President Eisenhower last week in his State of the Union speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By latest estimates, two-fifths of the world's 2.6 billion people are subject to the disease; each year 200 million suffer from malaria, and 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 die of it. In the 60 years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about wiping out malaria-with the old drug quinine, with new drugs such as quinacrine, or with mosquito-killing DDT. But malaria...
...Real & Unreal. The story of the Wanderer (Lagerkvist names no names) begins with his lack of, charity toward a felon who is being led to a place of execution. The felon, staggering under his cross, says: "You shall suffer greater punishment than mine; you shall never die." Later, whispers reach the Wanderer that the cross-bearer was God's son, and he soon finds out the terror of being immortal on earth: where there is no death, there is no love, at least not in the human sense. The Wanderer leaves his city.-and his age-to take...
...influence of the die-hard Nazis in Germany today, Conant declared, is negligible. "The myth of the Third Reich has been destroyed. If there should be another right radical movement of any significance in free Germany, it would in no way associate itself with the Hitler past. It is my judgement that, barring widespread unemployment or a run-away inflation, there will be no significant right radical movement in Germany as long as the N.A.T.O. alliance remains strong...