Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late as the Depression, Americans starved. "In the wet hay of leaking barns," wrote John Steinbeck, "old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them." About 2,000 Americans still die yearly from diseases of malnutrition, and many of the poor are poorly fed. The official U.S. poverty definition is based on the Department of Agriculture's "economy" food plan ("essentially for emergency use"): large helpings of bread, rice, dried beans and peas, cereals, rare servings of meat, no out-of-season or convenience foods...
...peasants have long since built bomb shelters near their huts, and the sound of approaching bombers or helicopters provides time for civilians to scramble into them. But an artillery shell's whine gives warning only when it is too late for anything except to hit the dirt-or die...
Willy ist so gut nicht, Darum rufen wir euch zu Besser ist der Ludwig Und die C.D.U...
...Die in Madrid is a 90-minute documentary knit into a tragedy-the story of the Spanish people during the scarring years (1936-39) of the civil war. To make it, French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif drew on English, French, Russian, German and U.S. newsreels, molding his material into an elegiac whole, a powerful work...
...Die in Madrid is no one-sided polemic; one of its most touching moments is a depiction of the last conversation between the proud Nationalist defender of Toledo's besieged Alcazar and his young son, who is about to be executed by the Republicans because his father will not surrender. It was a "war of heroes," notes the commentary, "because there were Spaniards on both sides...