Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive huts or roofless stone buildings; they died without medical care in an empty room furnished only by their waiting coffins. In his 16 years of heroic service on Molokai, which ended with his death from leprosy in 1889, Father Damien made many improvements, including a water system built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion...
Several other deaths due to "serum sickness" or delayed reaction to penicillin have been reported; the patients died five to eleven days later. But this was the first death reported due to "anaphylactic shock," i.e., immediate allergic reaction. There may have been others. Dr. Waldbott warns: "Not everybody would write up deaths in their own practice; and not everyone would recognize such a death as due to anaphylactic shock." His advice to physicians: check carefully to make sure the patient has not been sensitized to penicillin; if he has been, take extra care not to inject it into a vein...
...ready to play it. Composer Strauss had done more than strain off a potpourri of the original music; he had taken six or seven of his best themes, added some new material, then stirred and blended it all into a symphonic piece, in the tradition of his great Death and Transfiguration (1889). Said Conductor Reiter: "Strauss's music craft is as perfect as ever...
...music-and mystery-loving Madrilenos were taking their choice of two suggested explanations. The prosaic one insisted that Maria was hanging on to Manuel's last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart and María, now a wrinkled, white-haired 62, felt that there is no such man in the world today...
Then came World War I. J. P. Marquand saw action, rose to the rank of captain, but (though he later recalled it effectively in So Little Time) the war roused in him no Hemingway impulses to write about it. "Of course I got frightened to death on a number of occasions and I saw a lot of people get killed, but I don't think it did very much...