Word: comas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood is needed badly by the soldiers, the Center explained, because it staves off shock, coma, and death. The casualties of the Cocoaunt Grove holocaust required a tremendous amount of plasma to revive the injured from the shock brought on by burns and loss of blood...
Rushed to a Hollywood hospital, he lay mostly in a coma, suffering from myocarditis, chronic nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...
Whipple said that the comet, which now appears almost overhead in the constellation Coma Berenices, is moving in a southwesterly direction and should become visible through small telescopes in about six weeks...
Ernest Lapointe, 65 years old, worn out by diabetes and the strain of war work, lay ill in a Montreal hospital. Once he stirred from a coma, looked up into the eyes of his wife and daughter. "You all alive?" he said. "Good. So am I. We'll celebrate. Give me some water. . . ." Then he died...
...days later, when the Senate in Washington confirmed his permanent cormmission as a major general, Adna Chaffee was in a coma. Occasionally, his wife and doctors heard him murmur something about the U.S. flag, saw his body stiffen to attention in the bed. He had hoped to die on active service, with his tanks and troops at Fort Knox, Ky. Sick since last year, beaten by pain, he gave up his command three weeks ago and went to Boston, where he could be with his friend and physician, Dr. Edward Delos Churchill...