Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Chechakho London would have approved of Sourdough Robertson, who knew he must die, but begrudged his body to the wolves. A searching party found the oldtimer last week. He had deliberately lain down in the stream, let the freezing water trickle over him as he settled down to sleep. The tracks of baffled wolves were all around, but the body of Sourdough Robertson was encased peacefully...
...That another rich trustee (identified as the late Oilman Henry L. Doherty) was nominated while he lay dying in the Temple University Hospital, his backers urging "that he be elected at that particular meeting for fear he would die before the next meeting...
...division of the U. S. Department of Labor, who warned that 25 to 33% of the production workers used in defense will have to be highly skilled, called for the present number of apprentices in training to be upped from 100,000 to 500,000. Most economists (except the die-hard C. I.O.) agreed that by mid-1941 all who could readily be employed in factories would be working-and that anyone not employed by the end of 1941 probably never would...
...surgeon can only be accused of accessory murder. The premeditated murder lies at the doorstep of those internists who permit their patients to get into such a deplorable state in which only the 'Hand of the Almighty' could save them. Would Dr. Andresen let them all die? . . . I am sorry that my remarks offended [him] . . . I simply asked for a closer cooperation...
...each other as children, gone to the same schools, become even closer in college and who will stick together in the business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them blazers while they are still in school, follow up this acquaintanceship from the time they graduate till they die . . . and more often than not, a man has mortgaged his soul to the friendly tailor with the Glen Urquhart plaids, Vavasseur silks, and hand-woven Shetlands long before that day arrives...