Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...friends had said of him: "Neville is a man to die with, but not for." Chamberlain had died for his country, in his own queer, lonely way, while his country still fought for its life. It was too soon to know whether the life and death of Neville Chamberlain was the tragedy of a man and a class, or of a nation, an empire and a race...
...last year, shaggy, shy Coach Shaughnessy had miraculously led the Indians to six victories in a row (over San Francisco, Oregon, Santa Clara, Washing ton State, Southern California, U.C.L.A.). Last week, when they met Washington, only other undefeated, untied team in Pacific Coast Conference play, it was do or die for the Rose Bowl. With only two more games to go, victory would probably mean a trip to Pasadena...
...Only a man harrowing clods . . ." wrote Poet Thomas Hardy. "Yet this will go onward the same though Dynasties pass. . . . War's annals will fade ... ere their story die...
They variously saw: a French declaration of war on Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from...
Capital, he argues, must have the masses to fight the fascists. Hence labor has capital by the throat, and the sporting thing for capital to do is to lie down, twitch feebly and die...