Word: mortality
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...believe flowers are proper and right at the time of death, beautifully symbolic of the brief human life, grown by God and thereby so precious to Him, even at its fading. So, no matter what others may say, send ME flowers. And don't use my last mortal remains as a charity income tax deduction...
...might be useful, since "a woman's appreciation of beauty is more developed than that of a man. If a flight seems beautiful to a man, it would seem even more so to a woman." How did he feel about becoming a celebrity? "I am still an ordinary mortal. My gold star, Hero of the Soviet Union medal, bears the number 11,175. That means 11,174 people accomplished something very notable before me." Before the mob scene was over, a dozen women had swooned under the combined impact of the crush and Yuri's sex appeal...
...York it fell 358,000, and Sunday circulation slippage was far worse: 1,819,000. In the same decade, only one New York paper, the Times, logged any significant gain, rising 220,000 to 744,763. New York's newspaper competition is not merely savage; it is mortal. Two of New York's four morning papers and all three of its evening papers are fighting for their lives...
...testing, an ominous phrase, "the neutron bomb," echoed across the U.S. last week. It resounded through Congress, leaked into the press, was broadcast on TV and radio. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the N-bomb's most enthusiastic proponent, told the Senate: "We are in mortal peril. More than a year has passed since I first spoke on the folly of the test-ban moratorium. I mentioned the neutron bomb would operate as a kind of death ray. It would do next to no physical damage and result in no contamination, but it would immediately destroy...
...every tatter in its mortal dress...