Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will smoke [Jan. 17] until the day I die. I have smoked for over 45 years. I smoke cigarettes, cigars and a pipe. This is nobody's business but mine. First they wanted to stop people from drinking. That didn't work. Then they wanted to stop people from having babies. That won't work. Now they want to tell people if they can smoke or not. Who are they to tell other people what to do and how to run their lives...
...know if you've got in mind personal friends of yours or not. But in my opinion there are very few people who fall in this category. Circumstances, in some cases, are more than people can cope with. You can't let them die in the streets...
...what it ain't.' Perhaps that is as good a definition as I can give. I am reminded of the man who filled in an application for an insurance policy. One of the questions he had to answer was 'How old was your father when he died and of what did he die?' Well, his father had been hanged, but he did not like to put that in his application. He puzzled over it for quite a while. He finally wrote, 'My father was 65 when he died. He came to his end while participating...
...that, the Bahutu set about exterminating their enemies once and for all. Even Watutsi families who never left the country were massacred. Children were impaled, the forearms of Watutsi men were cut off, and the men sent into the jungle to die. Hundreds more were tossed into the Ruzizi River, which carried maimed bodies 125 miles until they bobbed up in Lake Tanganyika...
Lyndon's father, Sam Ealy Johnson Jr., wrote his own chapter of the kind that gives life to Texas legend. Sixteen years ago, when he lay dying in an Austin hospital, he said to Lyndon: "Get my britches. I'm going home." Lyndon protested. Johnson City, he said, could not provide the necessary medical personnel and equipment that the old man required. Replied his father: "I'm going home where they know when you're sick and they care when you die...