Word: die
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Which cannot die, yet cannot chuse but die...
Another danger of high-altitude flying is "anoxia" (lack of oxygen). If a pressurized plane should suddenly lose its air at 40,000 ft., the passengers, according to Swearingen, would lose consciousness in seven seconds, die in 45 seconds. Loss of pressure at 40,000 ft., said a CAA man, "is a complete catastrophe-like a wing falling...
Yates's Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless...
...paper, the Herald & Express, was saying: "The situation is serious but not hopeless . . . With Chinese actually in Korea we can hit back for the first time." Next day, the Herald & Express also got its new orders from the chief. It reversed its field and asked: "Why should our boys die by the thousands in Korea...
Roosevelt's fellow editor's opinion of him is mixed; except for a die-hard or two, most of them agree that he was a "very good companion . . . with a ready laugh and a keen sense of humor." A number feel that "other men on the board at the time showed greater promise...