Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since, according to Bolivian law, only one person can be executed for a murder, a lottery was held to decide which of four convicted prisoners should die for the crime...
...even then Rasputin did not die. Alarmed and amazed, Prince Yussupov called in the other conspirators. Entering the room they saw the monk crawling across the floor "bellowing and snorting like a wounded animal." Several more shots were fired and the body of the monk was tossed over the bridge, as planned...
Four men convicted of assassinating (in 1917) General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime (1899-1904) President of Bolivia, were gathered together at La Paz to draw lots to see who among them should die for the crime. Loud and long did the daughters of the murdered man cry out that all four were guilty. But the court directed that the lottery proceed. Three white and one black ballot were placed into a black hat-the black one signified death...
...Pont. "I want to fly as long as I can and die like a gentleman." So said Alexis Felix du Pont, son of the vice president of the du Pont de Nemours & Co., who entrained last week for San Antonio, Tex., to begin service in the army air service as a cadet...
...inconceivable to dwellers in American cities. It is safe to say, however, that this mass of irresponsible and unsheltered children, too numerous for the orphanages of any nation to control, will serve in the next ten years as a test of the Soviet's ability. If they neither die off, nor grow up into gangs of adult criminals, but find a place in the social order, unlimited praise will be given to the government which rescues them...