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Word: die (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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This trio would probably succeed Tito in a joint capacity if the marshal were to die or be assassinated. Probably no one of them has the personality to succeed Tito alone-Kardelj is too colorless, Djilas too impetuous, and Rankovic too well hated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...official pointed to a general flat on his back before him. "This one," he said, "we thought we could identify. It says on the statue 'General Dupas.' But when we checked, it seemed that about 100 generals of the same name die each year. We never identified him." He gazed at the general, but the general offered no clue. Nearby a mustachioed captain of colonial infantry, stern devotion to duty written all over his young face, looked up at an overweight nude (see cut). As a statesman turned his frock-coated back, a nameless admiral, whose neck, broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Illustrious Unknown | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...wonder where I'm gonna die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Cross | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...play was a farce based on the plight of rich Britons stranded in a swank Swedish hotel after having spent all the money (?50) Attlee's government allows tourists to take out of Britain. At one point, a player remarked wanly: "My accountant has forbidden me to die until the Tories get back." Attlee just smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Slow Starter | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Every year thousands of U.S. infants die of epidemic diarrhea. A 1944 outbreak in Texas killed 1,372 - more than the nation's death toll that year from polio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Deadly Strain | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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