Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that he was getting old, reminded them that his father lived to be 105. But his face had turned yellow with age; he had repeated heart attacks. Greek government officials began to carry black ties in their pockets, to be ready for official mourning the minute the boss died. It was said that during one of his attacks, last year, when doctors tried to move him to the left of the bed on which he lay, The Old Man muttered: "No, please-let me die in the center...
...Die!" When Alessandro took over his estates last year, he surveyed his assets and found that 222 sheep were missing from among the more than 2,000 at one of his smaller farms, a ranch in central Italy. The manager, Pierino Amori, explained that the animals had disappeared during the German occupation and that he had not wanted to worry his master with such a trifle; but the prince filed charges of theft against Pierino. This month he was to appear in court to answer the charges...
Sometimes, for reasons which medicine does not yet understand, a cell turns out to be different from normal cells. Most such "mutations," less competent than the normal cells, die and are absorbed by the body. But occasionally a variant cell appears that is disastrously competent...
...long ago, Memorial's doctors noticed that cancer patients, often reacted well after a serious operation, but died a few days later for no apparent reason. Sloan-Kettering's research men went to work to find an explanation, found that in such cases the patients had died because of a deficiency of potassium in the blood. When potassium was added in new cases, the patients picked up quickly and survived the operation. Dr. Rhoads believes that such improved surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people...
Another thing that Dr. Alice hopes to do is to grow her virus for a long time in mouse tumors, transferring it from mouse to mouse as the tumors die. When grown on new food, viruses often change their ways. Dr. Alice hopes that the encephalitis virus might be taught to give up its taste for brain tissue while increasing its appetite for tumors...