Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever heard in all his life, of a candidate without a wife?"). They have been won by a McKinley, sitting quietly on the front porch of his Canton, Ohio home; and lost by a Bryan, carrying his crusade 18,000 miles through 29 states. They have caused the death of at least one candidate: famed Editor Horace Greeley, who died three weeks after his defeat by President U.S. Grant...
...Perl was an abortionist. But she plied her terrible trade out of mercy. She has explained: "It was the policy of the Nazis to immediately put to death all Jewish, Polish, Russian and French women who were pregnant, in the gas chambers, and in the crematorium. I aborted them to save their lives." Last winter Congress passed a special bill granting Dr. Perl permanent residence in the U.S., on the urging of Representative Sol Bloom, who praised her "simple humanity" in saving "the lives of more than 3,000 women...
...current Partisan Review an article titled "A Parable of Simple Humanity," by Hans Meyerhoff, considers the moral implications of what Dr. Perl did. "Into the struggle she threw her . . . life here and everlasting," he concluded, "[She] risked death and eternal damnation . . . and came to be hailed on behalf of 'simple humanity' at the price of thousands of lives which might have been, but never were and never will be. [She] was right in being what she was by committing this enormous wrong...
...greatest present danger from science-induced increase in population is in the Orient. ". . . Relatively inexpensive health services [have reduced] death from epidemic diseases, even though the level of living . . . rose very little...
Dead End. Thompson believes that the increase in eastern populations will "come on so fast that it will consume practically all the increase in production . . . Indeed, may it not lead to more devastating famines and a higher death rate as population increases...