Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad that he had managed to keep active, mentally at least, almost to the end. "He wrote three editorials in this last month-one on Eisenhower in Europe, one on Korea and I forget the other." When he entered his final coma, she sat all night by his bed until the small hours of morning, finally agreed to let the attending doctor give her a sedative, was asleep when death came...
...candidate, became a perennial rally speaker and wrote articles for Manhattan's Daily Worker. Her birthday became an annual excuse for big Communist picnics and celebrations. But early this spring, after a bad fall, she began to fail. As she lay in her hospital room in a half-coma she repeated, over & over: "There is no country like America, the good old U.S.A." At times, she sang the Star-Spangled Banner-all four verses...
...sophomores injured in a Memorial Drive auto crash last month are doing well and are expected to recover completely. Richard B. Kline, the more seriously hurt, is conscious and coherent much of the time now after a long period in a coma...
Cleveland's faith in its Negro players marked the distance Negroes have coma in baseball since Jackie Robinson first barged through the major leagues' unwritten color line to join the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. This year at least 14 Negro players are sure to stick in the majors, eight of them concentrated in two New York clubs, the Giants (4) and the Dodgers (4). The lineup...
...Prensa's death had been expected ever since the paper fell into a government-encouraged coma two months ago. Dictators are notoriously thin-skinned and Prcon and his wife Evita could not endure the barbs of La Prensa indefinitely. The only question was whether they would take the step of complete suppression, knowing that an unfavorable response in other countries was inevitable...