Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the controls. The Huey crashed and rolled over, injuring the rest of the crewmen. Somehow they managed to pull the major from the wreckage, and went to work on Kelly's wound. It was in vain, for he was shot through the heart-the 149th American to die in action...
...same time, an ex-actor named Tom Laughlin founded a Montessori school in Santa Monica, quickly made it the biggest in the U.S., and brought in an authentically European Montessorian couple to run a teacher-training program. Orthodox Montessorian Laughlin scorns Nancy Rambusch, confidently expects that the A.M.S. will die within three years...
Lodge quickly recovered his composure, thanked the monks, returned to his packing chores. He was leaving South Viet Nam after ten months as ambassador-ten months in which monks continued to die in flames of their own setting, in which the government of South Viet Nam had twice been overturned by military coup, in which-through no fault of Lodge's-the U.S.-backed war against the Communist Viet Cong had gone from bad to worse...
...Trial. Last week a transcript of Brodsky's trial filtered out to the West. Published in Hamburg's responsible weekly Die Zeit, it spoke volumes about the fate of the abstainer in Russia today...
...determined to do it justice. "I dressed as any college student would," he wrote in the dispatch that went out to all client A.P. newspapers, "and easily milled among the rioters on the University of Mississippi campus." On that September night in Oxford in 1962, two men were to die in the violence provoked by the registration of Ole Miss's first Negro student, James Mere dith. The A.P.'s Savell reported it all. He also reported the gaunt and commanding presence of onetime Major General Edwin A. Walker...