Word: epitaphed
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...this too simple concept, one man wrote an obituary last week. The man who carved the epitaph was a Leftist, who translated his hopes into the terms of international socialism. His right to bury the hope was as good as any Leftist's: Arthur Koestler, of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Haifa, Cairo, Moscow, Paris, Zurich, Seville, and now of London, is a veteran of many of Europe's military and ideological battlefields, concentration camps, hospitals, prisons, a journalist of repute, the author of one of the most brilliant and powerful novels of the present day (Darkness at Noon; TIME...
...Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke's ideas on death annoyed out of him the stanza which was to close his epitaph...
Coming at a time when Chinese intellectuals feared being shoved into a United Nations limbo, the treaties may open a new era in China's relations with the Western powers. They undoubtedly wrote an epitaph on a century of abuses of Chinese rights and contributions to Chinese life by the same Western powers...
...still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled pacifism." His own unprincipled imperialism was given its epitaph by Sagittarius' second verse of parody...
...brief A.P. dispatch from North Africa recorded the perfect epitaph for Nick Craw: "He was born...