Word: coma
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...contaminants might have entered the Songhua River. According to Chinese media reports, the plant produced aniline, which is used to make dye, fungicide and shoe polish. The Illinois-based National Safety Council considers it an "extremely hazardous substance." In small doses it causes lethargy, while larger doses can cause coma...
...went into a brief coma seven years ago, she recalled, and “the moment he woke up, he said, ‘My name is Jack Dougherty and I’d like a big, tall Coke...
...simple words: “You had me worried/so worried that this would last.” James’ ragged voice is so captivatingly emotional that just that one line suffices. The group then builds into a high-register guitar solo before drifting back into the quiet sonic coma in which the song—and Z itself—began. The song’s denouement lasts approximately two full minutes, but when it finally fades into silence, you’ll undoubtedly feel compelled to start it over again, unlike the album as a whole...
...died of a massive heart attack. They had been married a month shy of 40 years. Just five days earlier, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael had been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and septic shock; at the time of her father's death, she was in a coma...
When Quintana woke from her coma, her mother had to tell her three times that her father was dead; she kept forgetting. Didion obsessively reviewed the medical records from the night Dunne died, plotting out the chronology precisely--the call to the hospital, the resuscitation attempts, the final pronouncement. Magical Thinking also skips backward in time, via memories and echoes and chance connections, to call up a shimmering portrait of her unique marriage to Dunne, the union of two talented, ambitious, workaholic writers who were each other's first readers and editors. To make her grief real, Didion shows...