Word: die
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that his morale had cracked. He still counterattacked, resisted fiercely, took back several nameless ridges. He had plenty of ammo. For days his own radio kept mum about the Inchon landing. U.N. planes dropped 3,000,000 leaflets, breaking the news and calling on him to surrender or die. At week's end his choice was still death, not surrender...
...good leg for a few seconds and lightheartedly wiggled the injured one. Next day he presented his doctor with a dilemma: "It will do you no good if I get over this," said Shaw. "A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care." When their patient began to suffer from the recurrence of an old kidney ailment, the worried doctors issued a few "toned down" bulletins on his condition. This week he seemed as perky as ever, offered another bit of advice to his doctors. Said the author of Back...
...practiced the auctioneer's spiel as he did his farm chores, at 19 apprenticed himself to an auctioneer for three years, at nothing a year, and became an expert judge of fine cattle. "Doctors may make mistakes, patients die, and laymen don't know why," explains the colonel. "But on the auction stand you're talking to men who know as much...
Born Joseph Sarto, a poor man's son, Pope Pius X reigned as pontiff for eleven years, died in 1914. He was the hero of countless warmly human stories. One told how he got to Rome to be elected Pope. Having given away all his money to the poor of Venice, he applied to the Catholic banks for a travel loan, but was turned down as a poor risk. Finally a Jewish admirer lent him the money for the journey, but Cardinal-Patriarch Sarto was so certain he would not be elected Pope that he bought a round-trip...
...Long Shots. Budd Sr. died in 1946 and Edward Jr., who had grown up in the company as tool & die maker, factory foreman and general manager, took over as president. He cut out the long-shot experimenting on such things as a stainless steel amphibious plane, and concentrated on railroad and auto equipment. Budd became the world's biggest independent producer of auto body parts, began paying its first regular dividends in 16 years...