Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assure you that I would much prefer to die from the blows of the Communists (who are certainly hostile to royalty, but who have no contempt for us) than capitulate before you, who symbolize the worst in humanity, i.e., racism, discrimination, injustice, death and lies...
...Trotsky and Stalin studied there), but with full employment and extensive welfare benefits. Dr. Gunther Nenning, editor of Austria's intellectual weekly Forum, reports that today the proletariat "is taking on characteristics of the bourgeoisie." It is common to hear such refined expressions as "küss' die Hand," (I kiss your hand), or "hab' die Ehre" (I have the honor) for salutations in butcher shops. The Communist vote has dropped to virtually nothing, while the Socialist Party, which claims 76 seats in the National Assembly, has helped govern the country for 20 years in a remarkably...
...past ten years, social commentators, with more hope than insight, have been predicting that rock would roll over and die the day after tomorrow. Yet it is still very much here, front, center, and belting out from extra speakers on the unguarded flank. Many cannot take rock 'n' roll, but no one can leave it. The big beat is everywhere. It resounds over TV and radio, in saloons and soda shops, fraternity houses and dance halls. It has become, in fact, the international anthem of a new and restless generation, the pulse beat for new modes of dress, dance, language...
...Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years...
...raise money, Giulio persuades his father to sell the farm where the old man had hoped to die, moves him and his chickens to languish in the city in a cramped spare room. Still short of capital, he makes a hilarious botch of peddling himself as playmate for a prune-faced contessa. Finally, he tries to retain the stance of a jealous husband while sending his wife off to beg a loan from an old admirer...