Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days a week, and when their enthusiasm flagged, he gave them what he called the "Raborn rededication treatment." This was a cross between a half-time pep talk and a Fourth of July speech. Said one dazed aide after getting the treatment: "I knew that I was ready to die for someone, but I didn't know whether it was the admiral, the President, my mother, the head of the Boy Scouts...
...tests are, of course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings had to die on the block, and a middle class had to rise from turmoil before the stubborn will to freedom finally took concrete shape in constitutions, parliaments and electorates...
Obviously, this revanchist fascist activity had to stop. Last week, as the latest escapee dog paddled his way to freedom across the Spandau ship canal, the Grepos machine-pistoled him down with seven slugs. Sinking in mid stream, he became the 58th victim -and the first dog - to die since 1961 while trying to enter West Berlin from the East German democratic workers' paradise...
...second-class Hotel Novelty. Mornings she marketed and fed the pigeons; on pleasant afternoons she strolled along the Promenade des Anglais. She said, "Women have one mission in life: to be beautiful. When one gets old, one must learn how to break mirrors. I am very gently expecting to die...
Many Iranians trembled at the near miss. Said one official: "If the Shah should die tomorrow, this country would become overnight more chaotic than South Viet Nam." The Teheran Journal mourned: "After the Shah there is no one." Young Crown Prince Reza is only four years old, and could not hold effective power even through a regency...