Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ability to drive an automobile fast, controllably. Control is the key word. For all their speed, racing cars are also intended to be safe. They are equipped with ultrasensitive steering, roll bars to protect the driver, specially designed tires to insure maximum road adhesion. Still drivers die, and it is not always entirely their fault...
...Hoot'n 4 1 1 0 G'stne 4 0 1 0 Lord 3 0 2 2 Sh'ky 4 0 1 0 Hall 4 0 0 0 S'ski 4 0 0 0 K'gn's 3 0 0 0 Sear 2 0 0 0 O'Die 4 0 1 0 Wrght 1 1 1 0 Hous'n 2 0 0 0 Kenney 2 0 0 0 P'trs 3 0 0 0 St'pns 2 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals...
...fancied they would sing around their fires. He is ill prepared for the reality he encounters: dirty, sly, half-slaves whom he must train to fire fieldpieces without live ammunition. Thus he hides the gradual erosion of his soul by secretly rehearsing the noble death he plans to die in defense of Fort Pillow-protecting his cowed troops, daring the Rebels to kill him, instructing them to let his poor charges live. In the end, Seabury is amazed by the uncomplaining way in which his men die, and finds more irony and fury in himself than he had reason...
Some readers will be offended by the highly explicit manner in which Author Lentz describes the rude indignities heaped on the ignorant Negro troops by their white superiors, or the meanness shown by Confederate recruiters as they drag 16-year-old boys away from their homes to fight and die. There is reason to believe, however, that Lentz tells...
...best sites on Blackstone Street. Words and sometimes assorted vegetables, were exchanged in the competition. After a few carts, tomatoes and apples went spinning across the pavement, the City decided to license only a fixed number of "regulars." They occupy assigned sites on Blackstone Street until they retire or die. Then the site goes to the first person on the waiting list...