Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devotion to the theater. She earned about $9,000,000 in her long career, playing in the world's top theaters as well as tents and makeshift open-air stages. As she lay dying at 78, in her Paris house on March 26, 1923, she rallied from a coma to ask if there were any reporters outside. When she was told that there were, she smiled. "I can tease them now a little by making them cool their heels," she said. And then she died...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...
...Pittsburgh, Lawrence declared: "I've never been prouder of the Democratic Party than with the unity we now have." Then he fell heavily to the floor, pulling the lectern over on his chest. He was taken to a hospital, suffering from cardiac arrest, and lay in a deep coma until his death last week. He never knew that Shapp was decisively beaten on Election Day and that the organization he had so carefully constructed was now in shambles...
...public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering in a coma for four months, Harry Byrd, 79, had seen nearly every political theory he held dear invalidated by the clamorous demands...
...March, a career army officer who in 1960 headed a military junta that toppled and eventually executed Premier Adnan Menderes, then, insisting on a new constitution and free elections in 1961, was voted President in a coalition government; after a series of strokes last February put him into a coma from which he never awoke; in Ankara...