Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIE IN MADRID. Rare vintage newsreels recall the tragedy of Spain's disastrous civil war (1936-1939) in Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif's masterly compilation, narrated most movingly by John Gielgud and Irene Worth...
...Philadelphia's Palestra, know just what he means. The screaming starts at the opening whistle, and it does not stop until the final buzzer-even for foul shots. A masked, feathered mascot dances about the sidelines while cymbals clash, and the cheering section roars: "The Hawk will never die!" An Ed. D. who is always called "Doctor" by his players, Ramsay is a pretty ferocious fellow himself-wringing towels, bouncing up and down on the bench, shouting hoarse-voiced encouragement to his Hawks. "He's so intense that it's almost impossible to speak...
...narrative should draw to a swift and orderly close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer in a hospital outside Nice. And then last week it stopped...
...Die." Defense Attorney Pilcher hinted darkly that Reeb did not die simply from his wounds. The civil rights movement wanted headlines, he contended, and there was "a motivation on the part of certain civil rights groups to have a martyr." Pilcher could produce no hard evidence that "they willingly let him die," and Ashworth riddied the claim with objections. But Pilcher had made his point...
...breakfast time on a jungle road in Viet Nam last week, Dwight Owen killed a Communist and saw dozens of Americans die. On patrol with a 1st Infantry Division search-and-destroy unit in the Iron Triangle 35 miles northwest of Saigon, the gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.) 19-year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where...