Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before I die," Sullivan told the audience "I've got to get into Harvard and if I do, I'll get you what you're willing to fight...
...could see. "To an American," he declared, "the free soil of Korea is hallowed ground." Lunching with American servicemen just 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone the next day, he lauded them in grisly language as "the boys that are willing to go and die and leave their arms and legs and their eyes all over the world. Except for you and your brothers who came here ahead of you, Korea would now be under the master's heel." Caught up in the tide of his own oratory, he recalle'd that his great-greatgrandfather had died...
...Whaley, 51, the cab driver who picked up Oswald after he fled the book depository building, was killed in a head-on car crash in December 1965. Ramparts views his death with suspicion because Whaley had never had an accident before and was the first Dallas cab driver to die on duty since 1937. In fact, Whaley was killed because an 83-year-old man (who also died) was driving north in a southbound lane. > Eddy Benavides, 29, identified as the look-alike brother of Domingo Benavides, a witness in Oswald's slaying of Patrolman J. D. Tippit...
Those Who Die. Some question whether life in Paris is really so gay for the Vietnamese. Said one Vietnamese...
Mary Renault's appreciation of the glory that was Greece has produced three fine period novels-The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea-each fondly flavored with enthusiasm and scholarship. In this fourth reconstruction of the Hellenic past, she grapples with the ordeal of Dion of Syracuse, who tried vainly, 24 centuries ago, to convert a tyranny into Plato's ideal city-state. This theme does not easily catch the modern fancy; after all, the roll of centuries has only emphasized the unattainability of Dion's dream. It appears...