Dies
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Appeared in the March 5, 2026, print edition as 'Coach Who Led Notre Dame To National Title Dies at 89'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025
This is foretold at the start, when the opening card quotes a phrase from "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War," another of Nguyen's works.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2024
But it’s interesting that he references a lot of music that he had written, especially the Dies Irae and a theme from the “All-Night Vigil.”
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Dies of his wounds, June 1914, at the age of eighty-three.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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