Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went off near train tracks in Abergele, where the royal family passed on its way to Caernarvon. Later, the train carrying the royal entourage was halted while police checked out one of dozens of bomb threats, and hours after Charles had left the castle, a British soldier burned to death inside an army minibus that had caught fire, possibly from a bomb...
Especially disturbing was the soaring death rate. On an average weekend in New York, five heroin fatalities are reported, but during the last weekend in June the number rose to 24, an increase of almost...
Heroin is usually injected directly into a vein or "mainlined," and it soon slows down vital functions. A large enough dose will stop them altogether. Yet it is often difficult to determine the exact cause of death. Dr. Milton Helpern, New York City's chief medical examiner, says that there is no clear evidence of simple overdose in the great majority of heroin deaths. Instead, 90% are caused by what he calls an "acute reaction" to the drug or its adulterants. "We don't like to call them overdoses...
Even when the heroin dose is not strong enough to cause sudden death, its depressive effect on the respiratory system can bring on severe lung congestion resulting in death within a few hours. Most other heroin deaths are due to viral or bacterial infections carried by the needle. These infections include endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart valves, tetanus, which kills few people aside from addicts nowadays, and viral hepatitis...
...Harrisburg, Pa., three Negro teenagers pleaded guilty to the charge of shooting a 64-year-old man to death during a bank robbery last December. Despite the guilty...