Word: coma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yelped and fell into an eclamptic fit. Her whole body became rigid. She clenched her teeth, stopped breathing. Her face turned dusky red. For more than a minute she lay like that. Then, after a few minutes of spasmodic limb-yanking and body-jerking, she relaxed into a deathly coma...
Consequently when certain advertisers presume to ape, the effect is horrid. Horrid too is the arch way the same gentry bedeck their dry bosoms with TIME's own art-jewelry ("jam-packed," "fortnight ago," etc.) Ugh! It is really too too much. Readers are smitten with nausea, coma; worse, they develop sales-resistance...
...sanatorium lights shone brightly in the summer dusk. Marie Curie lapsed into coma. Next morning at daybreak she died. Her body was taken to Paris. In a crypt 20 miles from Paris, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Only witnesses were her daughters, son-in-law, a handful of intimate associates. One by one, in silence, they filed past the casket and each laid on it a rose. The world Press rang with acclaim for the greatest woman scientist in history...
...fourthly, doctors don't interrogate each other as to the properties of morphine-that is analogous to asking someone what letter follows "A" in the alphabet; fifthly, there is not a hospital to be found where even a mere interne doesn't know the difference between diabetic coma and insulin shock-no argument necessary, there are just about ten good signs to differentiate the law hastly, residents aren't ever that good handling. Yes, I am a medic...
...behalf of the President that business was to get reasonable consideration, not merely to be the butt of the New Deal. ¶ "Deeply shocked and distressed" was President Roosevelt when he heard that his onetime Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin had died in Manhattan- whispering in his coma as he lay dying "Yes, Governor . . . no, Governor ... I don't think so, Governor" (see p. 72). Two days later, accompanied by Vice President Garner and members of the Cabinet, he went to Manhattan to attend the Woodin funeral. ¶ To Congress, the President sent a special message asking...