Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the plot for a moment. Alfredo Alcon is going to die in a week or so. His mother persuades Graciella Borges to be his mistress by promising her a trip to Paris following the funeral. After a few days of amorous ghoulash, Alcon's doctors tell him he will live. When Borges hears this, she lets him know for the first time about her bargain with his mother. He shoots himself in despair; she goes to Paris. All these witty antics take place in a seaside retreat as elegant as suburban Miami. At least the Italians have St. Peter...
...serious demands of that training and some of its more trivial side effects. Men like Charles L. Ricks, one of the 696 Aggies killed in World War II, who lives in my memory as the finest field grade officer I ever knew. A man who was as willing to die for his men as he was to live with them, an intelligent soldier and a kind human being, he would have been a credit to any school...
...87th Congress tried desperately hard to die last week-and could not even make a success of that. Just as the members were getting ready to leave Washington for the year, two Democratic Senators raised objections that held the session over until this week. One was Georgia's Richard Russell, making a last-minute fight for a federal laboratory to grade peanuts at Dawson, Ga. The other was Florida's George Smathers, working to save a bill that would grant tax relief to self-employed persons who set up pension plans for themselves...
...discovers the only place where he is accepted by other people: in a cemetery. After that, Gigot never misses a funeral. He stands at the graveside, shoulder to shoulder with the mourners, and weeps a hatful for the dear departed. What a pity, he thinks, that he had to die-I wonder...
...year of schooling in the city. With her first whiff of the pure country air, she again falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, the galumphing but more-than-pure, Osgood. He asks her hand and, in reply, she delivers the fatal lines, "Oh Osgood, that cannot be. The die is cast...