Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General said wryly: "I am not too bad, but rest assured I will not fail to die...
...expect that there will be an easy retrenchment to a central economy." But Stanford's Roger Freeman insists that it is "only a period-like China's 100-flowers period. It may appear to open up the Soviet Union, but eventually it must die...
...Siberia. With Stalin to back him, Lysenko became absolute dictator of Soviet biology, including agricultural research and development. In 1940 he sent his opponent, Professor Nikolai I. Vavilov, Russia's leading geneticist, to die in Siberia. He purged or silenced other critics in universities and laboratories. While Stalin lived, no one dared to disagree with Lysenko. His primitive exercises in plant and animal breeding had few successes, and lack of dogma-free research contributed heavily to the poor performance of Soviet agriculture...
Depression memories die hard, and no matter how strong the U.S. economy may seem, there are always those who warn that "we are merely postponing a cyclical downturn." Or "we'll level off in the second half." Or simply: "What goes up must come down...
...steps into a stall shower and gets ready to sing. What comes jetting down upon him, however, is not water but streams of deadly gas. He tries to turn it off. Impossible. He tries the door. It is locked and batterproof. It appears that he will surely die. But he quickly wraps a shaving-cream bomb in a towel, wedges it against the door, sprinkles it with after-shave lotion, and touches the flame of a cigarette lighter to this ingenious subnuclear device. The blazing lotion heats the shaving cream until it explodes volcanically, and Napoleon Solo...