Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survive. It will likely open the way to vaster, more absurd mechanizations of defense. If it is never used, the magnitude of such a dead investment will reproach mankind in its folly for generations to come. If it is employed, it will not even protect urban areas; we may die with the satisfaction of knowing that most of "them" will be just as dead. I cannot countenance my taxes being used for the preservation of steel and the propagation of death...
...countrymen. Then along came a crusty old nationalist named Mohammed Mossadegh, who as Premier nearly overthrew the Shah in 1953 and, in the process, woke him up. "Suddenly, I realized that we were not only standing still but losing ground," says the Shah. "We had to develop or die...
...away from Lagos, and fled northern Nigeria by the thousands. In the battlefields, we ran and allowed the enemy to advance. Must we also run in our homeland? Face the enemy and fight him-street by street, house by house. This is the moment to die bravely for Biafra...
Grudging Desegregation. Said a woman at Louisville Memorial Hospital: "Without Medicare, I'd probably have stayed home to die. There's no other way I could afford this care." Says Walter Parrish, 68, of Marysville, Calif.: "I was against Medicare at first-sounded too much like socialism. Then last year I was in the hospital for ten days with a bill of over $700, and-again this year for 23 days. Now I know what it costs to be sick...
...obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot's Encyclopédie distinction between the words bind and attach: "One is bound to one's wife, attached to one's mistress." But the authors also do reasonably well on their own, as when they say of Louis XV that he "lacked the art of dying in due time...