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Word: ballona (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engineer Alan Adair, 30, unhappily divorced and tired of life, parked his car alongside Los Angeles' Ballona Creek one evening and washed down a handful of barbiturate sleeping pills with milk. Then he made notes: "7:26. Now I wonder how long it will take ... 7:31. Everyone wonders what it is like to die. I'm going to find out. 7:39. I can barely see." When police spotted the car at 2:45 a.m., Adair was in a deep coma. Fortunately, his record told doctors at Santa Monica Hospital how much barbiturate he had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dialysis v. Poison | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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