Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modest brick cottage. Kathy, his wife of four years (they had no children), was at work. "I don't quite understand what is compelling me to type this note," he began. "I've been having fears and violent impulses. I've had some tremendous headaches. I am prepared to die. After my death, I wish an autopsy on me to be performed to see if there's any mental disorders." He also wrote: "I intend to kill my wife after I pick her up from work. I don't want her to have to face the embarrassment that my actions...
...Rome, and became a national embarrassment. As a historical personage, she inspired more fiction than fact with her bizarre ways. Greta Garbo played her on the screen in 1934 as a vamp who went disguised as a man, washed her face with snow, and proclaimed that she expected to die "not an old maid but a bachelor...
...Does hibernation really ensure the safety of animals, or do many of them die during hibernation...
...people love each other," Hemingway once wrote, "there can be no happy end to it," meaning one must die before the other. "Being a widow is no picnic," says Betty Bacall, "you lose your place," a shattering experience that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40-to-60 age group. "I had to go on because of my children, and I had to because of my own sense of survival. Bogey's belief always was that if one mourns too long, one mourns for oneself rather than for the one who's gone. Life...
...said in one of the manifestoes on expecting some reciprocity. "I'll die first before I decay," he told a national magazine this month. Since the turn against ideology announced in Opus 4's "My Back has been true--if nothing else--to the caution sounded on that album in "Ramons...