Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of a reform passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government in 1958, there are now 143 life peers ennobled for merit whose titles will die with them. One likely feature of Wilson's bill: hereditary dukes and barons will be allowed to keep their titles and pass them on to their heirs, but only men and women elevated for distinguished service will be able to vote in the House of Lords...
THIS week in the U.S. of 1968, a Negro waiter will shuffle off, mumbling: "Yassuh, I'se hurrin' fas' as I know how." An angry Indian will vow: "Many white eyes will die!" A Marine sergeant will cry: "Come on, let's get the yellowbellies...
...invention. Eight imaginary teams of the Universal Baseball Association battle for the pennant; individual players spring to life as three dice and a collection of elaborately detailed charts decide their fate. They reach glory, enjoy fame, grow old, lose their skills, retire to sell insurance and finally die as the dice decree. Waugh records the statistics. He is God's scorekeeper, or perhaps God himself-the name J. Henry Waugh can be read as a play on the sacred Hebrew name for the Deity: Yahweh or Jahveh. He even invents standard folk poetry in praise of his veteran players...
...when I die, jist bury...
Soon tragedy shatters Waugh's invented cosmos. He throws triple ones three times in a row, and the "Extraordinary Occurrences Chart" demands that the next batter shall die. But the next man up is Damon Rutherford, most brilliant rookie pitcher in the history of the association. Waugh loves Damon like a son, but the necessary laws that hold the cosmos together cannot be broken. Damon Rutherford dies...