Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tito cried that he wanted peace "but not at any price," he soon complied with the U.S. terms. The prisoners from the first plane were released (they said they had received good treatment); the bodies of the four known dead from the second plane were disinterred from the hasty grave in which they had been buried and escorted to Belgrade with highest military honors...
Whatever the weather, four (probably five) Americans* were killed in the crash. On the trees around the wreck hung blobs of flesh. Last week the flyers' shattered bodies lay in a common grave in the mountain village of Koprivnik...
...English writer whom Anatole France once called the greatest intellectual force in the English-speaking world, death came last week. Herbert G. (for George) Wells had described himself to a friend just a few weeks before as having "one foot in the grave and the other waving about...
Dali had drawn 40 illustrations, and they were enough to make Cellini do a double roll in his grave. For example, Dali had decided to picture an incident when Cellini was five, and saw a lizard among the hot coals in the fireplace. The incident was memorable to Cellini, because his father "gave me a great box on the ears-and spoke as follows: 'My dear little boy, I am not striking you for any wrong that you have done, but only to make you remember that the lizard which you see in the fire is a salamander...
...sudden there was a crisis in shoes. The entire U.S. shoe industry seemed threatened with imminent shutdown. Several plants actually closed. Reason: now that OPA had returned from the grave, no hides and leather were going to market...