Word: died
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired lumberman, prosperous farmer (income: $20,000 a year) and devout member of the Willamette Gospel Church, Harry Holt began his crusade after he saw a documentary film that showed the plight of U.S.-Korean babies, many of whom were left by their mothers to die. Others, he learned, were ostracized by other Korean children. "Harry," says Bertha Holt, "could never forget those tiny outstretched arms. Finally, he realized that the Lord was speaking to him to do something for these children...
Reaction to the change was mixed. A few die-hard editors foresaw the doom of college journalism. "A woman's place is in the home," commented Managing Editor George H. Watson, Jr. '58. "The female is innately inferior," added Sports Editor Richard T. Cooper...
...actually had little reason to worry, for Alice had long since collapsed under his devastating attack and idolized him completely. They were married the October after his graduation. She was to die in 1884 during childbirth...
...such bad shape that neither the President nor his party feels he has any choice but to die with his boots on, it would be well for the American people to discover this sad fact now instead of later when it may be too late...
Most delicate problem for the money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying...