Word: mortalities
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...soul remained attached by a tenuous chord to his heart within seven feet of his mortal body...
...suicide flyers. The U.S. fleet which stood off Okinawa not only came to stay, it had to stay. The 6,000 to 7,000 of Japan's youngest men who flew Japan's oldest planes were quite as inextricably committed; they were locked into the mortal vortex of the divine tempest-Kamikaze...
...They are rough and their language gets coarse. . . . Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other." There are all kinds-"but when they are all together and they are fighting, despite their bitching and griping and goldbricking and mortal fear, they are facing cold steel and screaming lead and hard enemies, and they are advancing and beating the hell out of the opposition...
When the U.S. Army entered Weimar, it found that the mortal remains of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had disappeared on an iron-age pilgrimage never dreamed of by Poet Matthew Arnold. Also missing from its place beside Goethe in the city's Friedhof (cemetery) was the coffin of Goethe's great friend and fellow poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...
...split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno. Cries of fright changed to screams of terror and of mortal agony that were soon drowned by the leaping flames and the bursting of hand grenades tossed into the open doorways...