Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wieviel Tage hat die Woche?" asks the teacher. Hands fly up. "Die Woche hat sieben Tage," answers twelve-year-old Carol Ross, with just a trace of Boston in her eager voice. In the next classroom. Teacher Nancy Albaugh, an Ohio girl who customarily works in the U.S. Air Force dependents' school in Wiesbaden, is getting 25 enthusiastic German children to tell about the days of the week in English. Later, the classes mix, sing alternate stanzas of Go Down Moses and Nach grüner Farb, mein Herz verlangt. After two weeks of Americans' visiting Germans...
Last week medical detectives were carrying on an intensive campaign to find the donor who was carrying the uncommon jalciparum malaria parasites. Although the patient he infected has recovered after proper treatment, the blood donor himself may die if he is not treated in time, or infect other persons with additional transfusions. Of the 23 pints used at New York Hospital, 19 had come from regular hospital donors-medical students, nurses, technicians and outside contributors. All were tested and found free from malaria, as was one commercial donor. The three others could not be found at the addresses they...
...Change. The mortality rate of cancer of the colon and rectum could be much lower than it is, said Dr. Ravdin. Early detection and prompt treatment could save 30,000 of the 40,000 patients who die from it each year. But for breast cancer the formula of early detection and prompt treatment no longer seems to be the panacea it once was. "Despite all that has been done, the death rate from breast cancer has not changed...
...when those who believed in the defendants learned that they were to die, they turned their wrath towards the mean who had brought about their death, and on none more strongly than A. Lawrence Lowell, then President of Harvard...
...that Lowell and the other members of the committee felt their decision to be a correct one. This is the real tragedy of Sacco-Vanzetti: that the best of people with the best intentions managed to do the worst of deeds--kill two men who did not deserve to die...