Word: die
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...good, when I die and go to heaven, can I become a Zanuck...
...back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither, so I had to leave...
...time the festival was over, some of the musicians had decided to stay on indefinitely. Tall, pretty U.S. Cellist Madeleine Foley was canceling most of her engagements in order to remain. Said she: "Why should I go home and play when he may die some day? I'm going to stay here as long as I can borrow the money." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was renting a villa so that he could study with Casals until next December...
Openhanded nature gives people two kidneys, but only one is really needed to do the job (regulating the body's water balance and preventing the accumulation of waste products). Last week in Chicago, trying a desperate experiment on a woman doomed to die because both kidneys were hopelessly diseased, doctors performed the first human kidney transplanting on record...
...elbowing, staring people. He began to regain his appetite, soon was consuming 22 Ibs. of fruit, bread and milk. Last week he was able to get up and count the house. Veterinarians decided that Bushman, though enfeebled, might live on for months, or even years. But even if he died sooner, there was no doubt that Bushman would die happy...