Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Model Cities staff has thrown itself into a seemingly unresolvable dilemma. The harder they work, the sooner they die. Perhaps a sudden flare-up is preferable to a lingering death, but some residents disagree, and the staff itself is divided. The Model Cities agency can do a lot of good things in Cambridge, but when it becomes so enmeshed in politics...
...Edda. Let me give you an idea of how close it is. That evening these same peasants were cooking their supper over a fire of twigs on a raised, open hearth. The hearth was like the one you see on the stage in Act I of Wagner's Die Walkiire...
...that it could be used as a helicopter pad. Finally, two hours after the siege began, a lead pipe came flying out of one of the flat's windows. Said the message inside: "If you try anything (gas, guns, etc. . . .), M. J. Cross will be the first to die...
This sort of feeling has given rise to a special variation of the intricate signal that black soldiers in Viet Nam exchange when they meet. The standard greeting includes two taps on the chest -meaning "I will die for you." In Soul Alley, some blacks add a swift downward motion of the hand-a stroke to kill...
...members of disadvantaged classes rather than as members of one sex or the other. Moreover, "males may have been 'masters' and females 'chattels,' but this is perhaps the only such relationship in human history where the 'masters' sent themselves and their sons to die in wars while trying to spare their 'chattels...