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...added that he agreed wholeheartedly with Goulart's statement that the present trade system under the Alliance for Progress "represents a continual bleed on our [Latin American] economies...
...tuberculosis, which he caught while nursing his brother Tom. Given the medical practice of the day, it killed him. Nothing could be more harrowing than descriptions of Keats's final weeks in Rome. When he coughed up two cupfuls of blood one morning, the doctor felt obliged to bleed him two cups more "to relieve inflammation." Then he was put on a starvation diet of "one anchovy and a morsel of bread a day." As a medical student, Keats knew long before this that he was as good as dead anyway. He struggled to make his death easier...
...enough money for her fare. As soon as he could get a railroad pass, he brought his bride to Chicago. For nine years Gilbert worked as a fireman on the Alton Railroad. In those days railroad firemen worked hard. In heat so intense that it once made his nose bleed, Gilbert sometimes shoveled as much as 20 tons of coal in the course of a 16-hour day. He signed up as a member of Chicago Lodge 707 of the Brotherhood (he still retains his membership in that local), but he never in his years as a working fireman took...
...bore the cross along a mile-and-a-half route. Coming out of the church, the Catenacciu got his huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs, his bare feet began to bleed. Throngs of villagers and 15,000 tourists in Sartene for the occasion gathered along the route to jeer. Three times the Catenacciu fell under his burden, and each time a fellow penitent playing the part of Simon of Cyrene whispered fiercely: "Get up! You asked for this!" At last...
...plays a six-year-old whose mother has just died. The boy has an original mind ("Brave boys don't bleed very much when they're cut. No matter how big the cut is, they hold their blood in"), and he tries hard to understand what has happened to his mother. But he can't quite do it till he finds one of his goldfish floating belly up in the tank. At the sight he screams insanely and has to be slapped to his senses, but next morning he bounces up for breakfast as though nothing...