Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after her operation. Her death was the 17th...
Despite Big Doctor's backbreaking work (his daily schedule: 6:30 a.m. to midnight), Navajo health is still bad (the T.B. rate is 14 times the national average; the infant death rate, seven times). Says Salsbury: the neglected Navajos need more doctors, better sanitation, a more nourishing standard of living...
...20th Century's watered-down version of ineffable, gaseous ecstasy, but a state as real as Sunday morning breakfast. It's right there in the New Testament, says Lewis, referring to the resurrected Christ taking food with His disciples: "If the truth is that after death there comes a negatively spiritual life, an eternity of mystical experience, what more misleading way of communicating it could possibly be found than the appearance of a human form which eats boiled fish...
...John soon found that the brown girl was not what he was looking for, and journeyed on. At last, after many adventures, John confronted the "aged, appalling . . . crumbling and chaotic" face of Death itself...