Word: comas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pain. Left untreated, the malady gradually worsens. After several months, victims become irritable, then lethargic and sleepy. When they try to walk, they are likely to stumble about with a peculiar shuffling gait. Soon they can no longer stand, sit erect or even eat; often they fall into a coma and die. Their illness is African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis -an ancient scourge that afflicts at least 10,000 people a year...
Catch severe mono from a friend and fall into a coma for a month...
...going to zag, and the storm blew into supposedly safe New York City instead of hurtling Fire Island into the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau. I spent the night pumping raw sewage out of our flooded City basement, while my weather-wise buddies drank themselves into a coma to the pleasant accompaniment of a noisy but relatively subdued gale. The revelry wore on late into the night: one well-prepared inebriate fell asleep in a corner wearing flippers, a snorkel and a life preserver, while his brother wandered outside singing Hindu praises to the 60 mile-an-hour gusts still...
...nothing more than cheap shots that totally miss the mark when dealing with Weil. Although she flirted with the thought of converting to Christianity in the years before her death, allegedly telling a friend while in London "if one day I am completely deprived of my will, in a coma, then they ought to baptize me," Simone Petrement makes clear in this thoughtful biography that the Weil family never either stressed nor denied their religious and cultural ancestry...
Puopolo had suffered extensive brain damage from a lack of oxygen after he was stabbed. The respirator which was keeping him alive was still attached when he died at 4:12 a.m., after a 31-day coma...