Word: perishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the winter, we huddle in our overcoats about the table (many choose to wear gloves and hats) or crouch like Milton's toad before the fireplace, burning old issues of The Advocate to keep warm. Exalted, we are artists, suffering through the cold moment of neglect. Our words perish in the brittle air; we are stunned at seeing our own breath dissolve in clouds above the table...
Although Mencken shared the fate of the successful satirist-to perish with his enemies-he had fun, while he could, slaying philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Mencken added to the gaiety of nations; he was a great man with a custard pie. Puritanism, the genteel tradition in fiction, Prohibition and even that "Bible of the booboisie and boost-erism"-the Saturday Evening Post -all became his targets...
There is, of course, only one thing to do. Papa forsakes his multimillion dollar business and drives Pascal out to their country place-a little smaller than Versailles, but more cozy-where the child can perish in serenity. Papa assures the faithful family retainer (Bourvil) that Pascal must never know his fate, but the little rascal eavesdrops on the conversation and announces that he has known all along anyway. Everyone sheds a tear as Pascal manfully prepares to meet his fate. "I've never seen anything like that Pascal for guts," reflects the family retainer. "Well," comments Papa...
...Imperialism will perish before democracy without fail and inevitably. The day of the failure of the imperialism of Germany was forewritten from that time when she made her enemy the greatest democracy of the world...
...their lives. If a government fails in this basic duty, it is not redeemed by providing even the most perfect system for the protection of the rights of defendants in the criminal courts. It is a truism of political philosophy rooted in history that nations and societies often perish from an excess of their own basic principle...