Word: perish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
...Cities Perish. While Dr. Hutcheson speculated on the atomic Dr. Jekyll, other experts worried about the atomic Mr. Hyde. In the current issue of the Pulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a calmly horrifying article by Ansley Coale: "Reducing Vulnerability to Atomic Attack."* Prepared with the advice of a distinguished scientific committee (including farmed Physicists I. I. Rabi and Henry DeWolf Smyth), the article arrives at a dismal conclusion: there isn't really much hope for anyone-once the atom bombs start falling...
...Religions may split into sect or heresy; dynasties may perish or be supplanted, but for century after century the University will continue, and the stream of life will pass through it, and the thinker and the seeker will be bound together in the undying cause of bringing thought into the world...
...mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish. And, as nobody likes to perish (the experience is so uncomfortably drastic and final), people began to use their brains and became great inventors...
...aide to a pair of graves a li away. The 36 judges and executioners listed the dead men's crimes on a great sheet of yellow paper and nailed it near the temple doors. Solemnly, then, the priests surrendered to the police, said: "We have chosen to perish together...