Word: coma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate in barbiturate prose is the point at which tedium becomes coma, and perennially bestselling Author Keyes may have reached this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set in New Orleans and Paris in the 1850s and '60s, contains an amorous princess, various spies and diplomats, a slave auctioneer, lovely Creole maidens, and splendidly uniformed military personnel. The hero is a brilliant, brooding fellow who becomes the world chess champion and then chucks it all for love...
...champion at 165 Ibs., having won 23 fights and lost only five over a four-year period. Last April 9 at Madison, heavily favored to retain his title, he stepped into the ring against San Jose State's Stu Bartell. Minutes later, Boxer Mohr was in a deep coma from an intracranial hemorrhage following a moderate blow to the head. Eight days after the bout, without regaining consciousness, he died...
...women that suffer from frigidity need a mere improvement in their daily diet, such as curry powder, oregano, paprika, onions (not onion salt), black pepper and much garlic accompanied by beer. This frigidity coma is nonsense in South America, Mexico and all of the Asian nations because of much spices...
...late at night, he tossed fitfully, next morning awoke complaining of agonizing stomach pains. With a medical student's precision, he diagnosed his poison as thallium, a paralyzing ingredient in certain rat poisons. Hurried to a hospital and placed in an iron lung, he came out of a coma long enough to murmur "Red Hand," the name of a counterterrorist organization which operates in West Germany and Belgium against suspected arms suppliers to Algerian French Africa. He also muttered something about having been served two glasses of Pernod. The first tasted "all right," the second was "bitter." Last week...
...protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...