Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight natives formed a circle around the man who became a pillar of fire, "repelled him with precautionary blows of the lance . . . so as not to make mortal wounds." widening and contracting the circle, shouting at the top of their lungs, while the flames soared 15 feet high. The only part of the prisoner that did not crumble to ashes was his eyeballs...
Fierce was Labor's unsuccessful fight to put the principle of "prevailing wages" into the Work Relief Bill. Mortal is Labor's fear that if it takes less than union pay from the Government, private employers will use that precedent to smash its whole wage system. Hence New York's Central Trades & Labor Council was able to call union men off their WPA jobs last week, get them to make a quixotic gesture of Labor solidarity...
Therefore, Socrates is mortal...
...mortal...
...Claudius found that being an Emperor was even more complicated than it looked. His old schoolmate Herod Agrippa gave him good advice and remained his best friend, even when politics made them mortal enemies. With the best will in the world Claudius made mistakes, and an emperor's mistakes were hard to correct. But he kept hard at it, turned many a laugh on his critics by his homely shrewdness, gradually built up a solid popularity with the Roman populace. His greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork...