Word: epitaphed
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...color." He was sometimes taken in by leaders like Santa Ana, but never for long. His wits were "intransigent and not for sale," and though he was afraid to die, "he was not afraid to suffer a long, miserable existence for the sake of his beliefs." He wanted his epitaph to read, "Here lies the ashes of The Mexican Thinker, who did what he could for his country." But he never had a gravestone...
...wind-up of the second longest session in U.S. history. Only a few Congressmen were on the floors of House & Senate, and those few were somber and bitter. It was the day word came that Manila had fallen. Texas' Tom Connally uttered Congress' stammering epitaph: "We are a peaceful people. We were not expecting a war, we were not prepared for war. ..." The gavels banged. The 77th Congress of the U.S. ended its first session...
...nearby hill thousands watched the full military burial ceremonies at the Aguirre family vault. As the body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda was laid to rest, guns boomed from the hills and Santiago's church bells joined in tolling concert. The President had long since pronounced his own epitaph: "I was born in the country and I have ever been faithful to my first love, the land...
When Joe Kennedy wrote his epitaph of Paramount, many a Wall Streeter figured he was dead right. Paramount had just stumbled out of bankruptcy without appearing to shed any of the overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...
...those whom it does not stun or kill, disaster brings a spasm of new growth. Mrs. Kennedy is keenly conscious of this process, which gives meaning to the word immortality in a line (from her brother's epitaph) that keeps running through her mind: The reward of fortitude is immortality. Her book shows a whole nation earning that reward...