Word: die
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...newspaperman he offered him his freedom if he would agree never again to practice his priesthood in Yugoslavia. Replied Stepinac bluntly: "I am completely indifferent concerning any thoughts of my liberation. I know why I suffer. It is for the rights of the Catholic Church. I am ready to die each day for the church. The Catholic Church cannot be, nor will it ever be, the slave of any regime...
...built it up to an average Sunday attendance of about 140. When Baptist Pike hit on the idea of his "special service," he enlisted some men from his congregation to build a cross about five feet high and to buy a newborn lamb. His sermon was called "Watching Christ Die," and its text was Matthew 27:36 ("And sitting down they watched him there"). After he had finished preaching that night, the lamb was brought in and wired to the cross. Then the lights were turned out, a man of the congregation slit the lamb's throat...
...work force will have risen by nearly 20% to 87 million, the largest increase in any ten-year period in U.S. history. Between 1960 and 1970, 29 million new workers will enter the work force, but the net increase will be only 13.5 million because 15.5 million workers will die or retire...
...today has a net worth of more than $40 million, largely finances the powerful Farmers Union, which runs the propaganda machine behind the scandalous farm-subsidy program. F.U.G.T.A. pays no federal income tax. It holds 80% of its members' share of the profits until they quit farming or die. F.U.G.T.A. has not only expanded its own elevators and feed mills, but bought out privately owned, tax-paying businesses unable to compete. Since 1950, F.U.G.T.A.'s annual reports show $29 million in profits and only $9,000,000 distributed as cash to members, the rest plowed back into...
...figure skater. d) A columnist. 88. Died. A 60-year-old author (On the Beach) who once said he would prefer to die "in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life"; of a stroke. His name: a) Albert Camus. c) Havelock Ellis...