Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denied Admission. Barrientos seemed so likely to finish the remaining 15 months of his four-year term-a South American rarity-that his sudden death left the government in confusion. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 43, hurried to Quemado Palace at the news -and was denied admission by guards who did not recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140...
...example, by the almost total ignorance of contemporary business and financial practices on the part of rural Moslems. Often picking up their misconceptions from local ulamas, or wise men, these villagers, among other things, refuse to buy life insurance on the ground that it is literally a guarantee against death, and therefore against...
...suddenly confronted by two bits of unexpected sustenance: a stray piece of pork and some nonforbidden food in the hands of a traveler. Which should he take? He could not snatch the other man's food, the conference agreed, because that might cause the traveler's death. On the other hand, since it was the Moslem's religious duty to preserve his own life, he could eat the pork...
Maria died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1829, and her death utterly shattered Constable. "The face of the world is totally changed for me," he told a friend. He wore mourning for the nine remaining years of his life. To assuage his sorrow, he turned to a sketch that he had made of the ruins of Hadleigh castle, which stood near the mouth of the Thames. In the completed painting, while the ruined castle becomes a monument to Constable's grief, the scudding clouds, the glistening rocks and the sparkling leaves display a fervent commitment to self-renewing life...
...point there could be no disagreement. By far the commonest cause of premature death is premature birth, the reason for which is usually unknown except in cases of maternal illness. Prematurity as now defined is not necessarily birth before an elapsed gestation time of 280 days but birth, at any time, with a weight of 5¼ Ib. or less. For preemies, the first 28 days are especially hazardous. To care for them, University of Louisville Pediatrician Billy Andrews has devised an incubator setup so complex that medical students call it his physiology lab. Andrews maintains an around-the-clock...