Word: dying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained that he chose a firing squad because "when I was a kid raising hell everyone told me I'd end up on the gallows, so I thought I'd fool them. Also, there's an old saying I like: 'Live by the sword and die by the sword...
Good Roman Catholics live and die by seven sacraments, which they believe were instituted by Jesus Christ. The nature of these sacraments is such that they span the full life of man, but few men could lead full enough lives to receive all seven during a lifetime. Last week, however, the news service of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (U. S. hierarchical agency) discovered a man who had-the Abbé André Durupt, chaplain of a soldiers' home at Lunéville, France...
...Pittsburgh woman snatched up a bottle of poison, screamed "I'd rather die this way than like that." Her husband stopped her. A man telephoned the New York Times from Dayton, Ohio to find out exactly when the world was coming to an end. The Associated Press got out a reassuring bulletin...
...plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate? How do they meet their death? What remains in them when the last aspiration of their personal careers, their last hope for their cause, has disappeared? Thus he pictures the hero of Man's Fate, awaiting execution in a crowd of doomed...
...fought for what in his own time was charged with the deepest meaning and the greatest hope; he was dying among those men with whom he would have wanted to live; he was dying, like each of these men, because he had given a meaning to his life. What would have been the value of a life for which he would not have been willing to die? . . . An assembly of the vanquished in which multitudes would recognize their martyrs, a bloody legend of which the golden legends are made...