Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIE IN MADRID. Newsreels from five nations along with a sensitive commentary spoken by such distinguished nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth, powerfully re-create the tragedy of the Spanish people during the wasting civil...
Though all my law is fudge, Yet I'll never, never budge, But I'll live and die a judge! -Trial by Jury, Gilbert & Sullivan...
...inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats drifting helplessly. And when we look inside, we find bodies riddled with bullets-men, women and children...
...home constituency of Malatya with a horde of cheering supporters last week, he ran into a crowd of hostile Republicans, and the two groups eyed one another dangerously. "Leave them alone," Demirel cried to his friends. "If they want to kill me, let them. I shall die for the nation." His antics prompted ailing President Cemal Gursel, 70, head of the junta that overthrew Menderes, to hint that if Demirel tries strong-arm tactics now or after the election, the military will force him to desist. "We are not a mature nation," said Gursel. "We take many roads, legal...
...Yemen, had been on the upswing ever since August. It was then that a London conference to prepare plans for a South Arabian federation, which is due to gain independence in 1968, broke down in disagreement.* On Aug. 29, a British police superintendent was assassinated, the eleventh Briton to die by rebel violence in the past 21 months. Two days later Sir Arthur Charles, the British Speaker of the Aden Legislative Council, was shot and killed as he was leaving his tennis club at sundown...