Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago. Other defectors-including two of Elijah's sons-began following Malcolm out of the sect. Naturally, this did not sit well with Elijah. "Only those who wish to be led to hell, or to their doom, will follow Malcolm," said his biweekly newspaper, Muhammad Speaks. "The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape...
...over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven...
...Buenos Aires-Rio race is the most infuriating test of men and boats yet devised. The prevailing northeasterly head winds often hit 40 knots or more. Complicating matters is the mast-snapping pampeiro, a westerly-land wind that frequently howls off the pampas at even greater force-only to die in a sudden, glassy calm. The Brazilian Curfent-the backwash of the Gulf Stream-is supposed to flow southward at two or three knots. But it weaves like a snake and sometimes dies like the wind...
...with my daughter. She wants to become an actress." The neighbor, an actor himself, prescribed a drama teacher, who carefully prepared her for an audition at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique. She was accepted without hesitation. A year later she made her debut at the Comédie Française in Turgenev's A Month in the Country...
...Years passed and the king, growing old, called the boy to his side and said, 'I have consulted the oracle and it is written that in four years I must die.' Although the king was a strong and courageous man, his voice quavered as he spoke, because of his great love...