Word: comas
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China stirred fitfully, like a patient in a coma. The fever line of inflation shot upward-on the Shanghai bourse last week it took nearly 4,500,000 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. The Chinese themselves were delighted when G.O.P. Nominee Tom Dewey promptly declared (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that one of his first aims was to get "military advisers . . . material . . . far greater financial assistance" to China. But many feared the patient might be dead by Inauguration...
...visit. Some died (of diabetes); others developed the sores of diabetic gangrene. One little boy was told by the kindly old doctors that it would be quite all right for him to eat ice cream again. He went to a birthday party, ate heartily and sank into a diabetic coma...
...kept in his comfortable, $50,000 English-style home in The Bronx. He read voluminously, kept an eye on politics, wrote his weekly opinionated column in the newspaper PM. But last month he warned friends that he would not live much longer. Last week he fell into a coma, slept deeply for four days, rousing only once to drink a little orange juice and to speak a few words with his wife, Marie, and his two adopted children, Jean, 18 and Eric...
...actually knew this fabulous city on the border of Europe and Asia which, since its first stirrings under petty tyranny to its coma under a modern machine of domination, has been the most isolated of the world's great capitals...
Nearly all the victims had been operated on for disorders of the uterus, ovaries, etc. (two had had stomach operations). In each case the operation had seemed successful. But within 24 hours, every one of the patients had shown the same fatal symptoms: coma, rapid loss of reflexes, and what looked like severe scorching of the tongue. After the 15th death, Head Doctor Raymond Denis uneasily consulted a Paris toxicologist. The expert put Dr. Denis' vague horror into words: "There is a criminal in your service...