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Word: comas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sands died at 8:17 p.m. EDT during the 66th day of his hunger strike, after having entered a coma the day before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council Backs Sands Resolution | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

Sands, who lapsed into a coma Sunday, died at 1:17 a.m. Belfast time. (8:17 p.m. EDT.), with his family by his bedside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sands Dies | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

...third or fourth-but last April doctors discovered she had ovarian cancer. By December the disease had spread to her liver. Grasso valiantly ran the state government from her hospital room for weeks, finally resigning on New Year's Eve. After slipping in and out of a coma several times, she died last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut's Favorite Daughter: Ella T. Grasso 1919-1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...been in a coma since early Thursday and had lingered in a semi-comatose state since Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut, Dies of Cancer | 2/6/1981 | See Source »

...Coma, the bestselling novel that became a hit movie, greedy physicians have a nifty racket going: in order to acquire valuable organs for transplant surgery, they slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are Some Patients Being Done In? | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

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