Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more Americans who get transfusions every year, too many die on the operating table, and some as the result of a medical mistake. Surgeons and anesthesiologists, who are cautious about matching blood groups, have been ignoring the fundamental fact that circulating blood is warm; they have been pouring refrigerated blood into their patients' veins...
...astounding success of the California initiative could put ideas into other people's heads elsewhere. A united front of gluemakers, for example, might collect enough votes to ban the manufacture of Scotch tape. Chrysler could war on General Motors. Whichever collected the fewest votes would die a corporate death...
...scene Caligula declares, "I am not mad. I have never been so lucid." Yet rather than play Calugula as existential lecturer, Karlen in fact appears a bit mad, like a boy with a whopping identity crisis and an over-powering impulse for self-destruction. When he announces that "people die and they are not happy. Everything is a lie and I want people to live in truth. I will teach them," and spends the rest of the play degrading, insulting and murdering his comrades, Karlen gives the impression it is madness more than method which drives...
...Died. Captain Theodore Freeman, 34, one of the 14 men chosen in the third group of U.S. astronauts last October, first astronaut to die since the program started in 1959; when his T-38 jet trainer crashed near Ellington Air Force Base, in Houston...
...poets try to salvage some meaning from the assassination. W. H. Auden's quiet meditation has been set to music by Stravinsky and will have us U.S. première in New York on Dec. 6: Why then? Why there? Why thus, we cry, did he die? The Heavens are silent. What he was, he was: What he is fated to become Depends on us. Remembering his death, How we choose to live Will decide its meaning. When a just man dies, Lamentation and praise, Sorrow...