Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain coat he stepped before the bull, swirling the garment through classic florcos as though it were a bullfighter's cloak, "Go Alfonso!" he cried to a friend in the crowd, "Run! Get me a sword! Our little one (gesturing at the bull, now beginning to charge) will die when you return. . . ." Charged the bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna's flirting rain coat away from the crowds and toward a stone wall against which horns scraped as the master leaped clear. Eight times this sport was repeated, on the rough, treacherous street. Then Fortuna's frenzied amigo...
...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...
...with the force of a legend is the story of how blunt General Groener dared to tell Wilhelm II., in the last days of the war, that the Emperor ought to go in person into the battle areas and either rally his troops for a last effort or die in the attempt, "fighting as would become Your Majesty...
Naturally enough, people are curious to discover when they are going to die, how they can achieve riches, why they do not get along with blondes, where they should travel. Since centuries before Tut of the Egyptians, a canny minority has been answering these more-or-less cosmic riddles for the curious majority. The answers are not always correct, but they have some fine trappings?crimson draperies, crystal balls, ouija boards, wet towels...
Said he later: "She was such a pretty baby, I hated like hell to see her die. When I got home I washed my mouth with lysol. I was a damn fool to do that. I couldn't eat for two days. No, I wasn't afraid...