Word: die
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Even South Africa's rabidly nationalistic Afrikaans press was having second thoughts. The day before the riots, the Johannesburg Vaderland called for a "simpler and less hurtful pass system." The influential Cape Town Die Burger urged moderation on Prime Minister Verwoerd. But Verwoerd obstinately said that "nothing would be done" to abolish the pass laws, and belatedly discovered that the demonstrators at Sharpeville had "shot first," even though no one found arms on the Africans...
...treated, whereas the grief-stricken patient, if he goes to the doctor at all, may not tell about his grief. He is more likely to complain of physical symptoms. Yet these, Dr. Engel said, may have been touched off by the grief. Even the folklore notion that some people die of grief is not to be lightly dismissed, he insisted; there is no scientific proof that it is untrue, and it is worth investigating...
...going to die...
Centuries later, after a religious war, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa had the tooth ground in a mortar and spread the powder on the sea. But legends do not die so easily. A Sinhalese prince proclaimed that the tooth had miraculously reassembled itself and miraculously returned to the sanctuary of the Temple of the Tooth. Ever since, it has reposed there, as a symbol of Sinhalese nationalism...
...comparatively brief operatic career, 29-year-old Mezzo Lane has made something of a specialty of dying gracefully. The daughter of an immigrant Russian harnessmaker, she heard her first music in a Trenton synagogue where her father was baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens, after she won a Y.M.H.A. amateur contest singing Let Yourself Go. She abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like...