Word: comas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shrine. "It was while I was in a sort of coma," says Roman Catholic de Borse. "that I kept hearing ' the word 'Lourdes.' I tried to tell one doctor, but he couldn't understand me. Next morning I finally got it over to another doctor. At first they opposed me at every turn, and the airline companies weren't any better-they were afraid I'd die on the plane. And I had no money. But then there was another kind of miracle: a woman stopped my priest, Father Vaughan, in the street...
...task of modernizing the antiquated news writing as it flows in "would throw an intolerable burden on copy editors the country over except that there isn't much copy editing going on. The last copy editor is either dead of overwork or in a coma of frustration ... In a survey of editing and story structure in New England papers a few months ago, the most surprising fact to emerge was that there was no editing-or practically none-and that story sequence, no matter how awkward, was accepted without question...
...question was not of who administered the drugs, but of whether they were necessary at all. "From the dosage which she received during the last five days," said the prosecution, "there^ seems to be little doubt that large doses were given to a woman, already unconscious in a coma, who had no need of these drugs...
...through childhood, K. was extremely meditative, usually preferred to be alone. He often had mysterious dreams and fits, during which he sometimes fainted. In late puberty, K. experienced elaborate auditory and visual hallucinations, uttered incoherent words, and had recurrent spells of sudden coma. He was frequently found running wildly through the countryside eating the bark of trees, and was known to throw himself into fire and water. K. believed he could 'talk to spirits' and 'chase ghosts...
...bush pilot who joined the Canadian Air Corps at 16 in World War I, afterward soldiered in China, stunted in Hollywood and in 1935 discovered Angel Fall, the world's highest (3,212 ft.) waterfall, while chasing down a gold mine over Venezuela; after six months in a coma following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was recuperating after a plane crash; in Balboa...