Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hell!" The speech was over. Announcers again smoothly announced that not C. I. O. but the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie had put up the $45,000 for John Lewis' 30 minutes. Burly William Stevenson, a Detroit tool & die maker, handed a wire to a Postal Telegraph clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman...
...whose stones were lovingly laid in place by Rosemarians themselves. Lighted only by candles, it has engraved in its windows and ceiling the name of every Rosemarian. There Rosemarians each Sunday hear an Episcopal service, there some are married and there they are commemorated in tablets when they die...
...hear all these voices so warm, so confident, so familiar. English friends, Frenchmen in England or in the United States, speak to us, keep on speaking to us; we listen with fervor, often with the greatest emotion. Our confidence, our hope in you is enormous. No, France will not die. Help...
...season (against California), Harmon ran back the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown, wriggled 72 yards for another, 86 for a third. Against Michigan State and Harvard he was less spectacular, but ran up the score. Last week Bob Zuppke's boys, pledged to do or die for 34 the ghost of old Red Grange, ganged up on Harmon just as they did a year ago. Though he never got loose for a long run, he scored one touchdown, kicked a field goal and helped his teammates to whitewash Illinois...
...beginning of a great career"). John Brown writes his family from prison: "I am waiting the hour of my public murder with great composure of mind." Captain Robert Falcon Scott holds off death in the Antarctic long enough to scrawl: "We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit. ..." Dying, Lenin warns the Bolsheviks to remove Stalin from power before it is too late...