Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico. He did, and after it was over he and his wife were murdered by Indians, and Rebecca Jane, eight years old, and her young brother were carried away by the savages. Finally they knocked her on the head and ran him through the body and left them to die. But rescuers came...
...shoes and played in his stocking feet; he poured buckets of ice-water over his bleak brow. However crude his technique in indicating to the gallery that he was a beaten man, it had its undeniable effect. Women murmured sympathetically. Men gnawed their lips. Lacoste determined to do or die...
...method of execution consisted generally of shooting the victim in the stomach and watching him die. Other well authenticated tales of his methods are not fit for publication. During the war ho had been an officer in the imperial army and was of a good family...
...Clara Zetkin, Editor of Die Gleichheit, organ of the International Socialist Woman's movement allied with the Spartacists, was expelled from her post when the Party Directorate took control of the paper...
...coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...