Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People change. They die. They outgrow. A year passes, you cross the road to avoid an old best friend...
...Smolen. He would be released only when Nguyen Van Troi was released. And who is Nguyen Van Troi? He is the Viet Cong terrorist who was caught trying to assassinate U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with a planted bomb in Saigon last May. Troi, 17, is sentenced to die this Thursday. If he is executed, warned the A.P.'s caller, Smolen will die an hour later...
...conditions in the operating room have proved a godsend when treating infants with congenital heart defects. Working in an old and relatively primitive Navy chamber, Harvard's Dr. William F. Bernhard and his colleagues have now operated on 80 such infants and children, have had only one patient die during surgery...
...victory, a two-game total of 24 hits (two more than they got in the whole 1963 series against the Los Angeles Dodgers), and a fantastic team batting average of .325. What's more, they were going home to cavernous Yankee Stadium. Said Pitcher Ford: "The Cards will die in Dead Man's Gulch." But the Cards had something going for them, too: a retired stripper in Venice, Fla., named Fifi LaTour, who had been sending them postcards all season long predicting that they would win the pennant. Now Fifi was phoning in her World Series forecast...
...slogans. George Mowry, dean of social sciences at U.C.L.A., argues that they "compress a lot of truth into what is basically an untruth." Indeed, for the majority of voters not inclined to analyze issues for themselves, slogans are a welcome substitute for logical argument. "Most people would rather die than think," says Bertrand Russell. "In fact, some do." Russell's own ban-the-bomb marchers, mindlessly chanting "Better Red than dead," prove his point...