Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have a Cough." Choi Jung Mook is six years old. Last week he was living with four other boys in a corner of the Pusan railway station. A TIME reporter asked Choi what he will do when winter comes again. "When it is cold again," said Choi impassively, "I shall die." Why did he say that? "Because the last time it was cold, my brother died. He had a cough. Now I have a cough. So the next time it is cold I shall...
...that Braille learned to play the organ, and out of the institution's pitiful collection of embossed books, each divided into 20 parts, each part weighing 20 pounds, Haüytaught the boy the rudiments of reading. Though perpetually racked by his cough, Louis proved an able student. "This sad little dark boy," as Haüy called him, became both a teacher and an accomplished musician...
Conditioned Reflex. In Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Joseph O'Shea was freed on a charge of insulting a policeman after he told the judge that his cough, and not the passing cop, had made him stick out his tongue...
...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...office broke into the home of Antonio Rochin, a 22-year-old truck driver whom they suspected of carrying narcotics. Before they could stop him, Rochin swallowed the only evidence against him-two morphine capsules. The deputies choked him and pummeled him, trying unsuccessfully to make him cough them up. Then they dragged him to a hospital, forced him on to an operating table, where a doctor "pumped" out his stomach to get the evidence. The judge gave him 60 days...