Word: die
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...discovery that within two months before the crash he had taken out some $900,000 in life and accident insurance, naming his ex-model wife as beneficiary. And as they looked deeper into Frank's affairs, they found that he might well have reason for wanting to die: he was a young man in trouble...
...commuters recall that he was a first-rate bridge player but a loud, boastful sort of fellow (says one acquaintance: "He gave me the impression of being a young man in a hurry-ambitious, driving, smart"). Others remember that he often talked of dreaming that he would some day die in a plane crash...
...seemed to have struck it rich: he bragged of making $14,000 a month, moved out of his $20,000 home into a $45,000 house, talked almost casually of having "dropped $600,000 in the stock market." He also began taking out his huge insurance policies. "If I die," he told friends, "my wife will be the richest woman in the world...
...simultaneously with the Socialist opposition and with his own faction-ridden party, which cannot always be depended upon for support. His longtime goal is revision of the "MacArthur" constitution ("It may take years, and I may not live to see it, but I intend to push forward until I die"). He proposes to make the Emperor again "head of state" instead of merely a symbol, to have provincial governors appointed by Tokyo instead of elected, and to alter the House of Councilors-Japan's Senate-by substituting a number of appointed "distinguished citizens" for some of the elected members...
...love, and old age give a sense of timelessness. The dignity and discipline of the samurai stand in eloquent contrast to the grotesque and the demonical animality of the bandits. Some of the fight scenes, by the way, are better than any found on the tube these days. Many die, some with grace and none killed by the cliche...