Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Post-mortem studies show that, with prompt detection and proper treatment, half of those who die of head injuries could have been saved. Lasting or delayed disability could be similarly reduced, reported Pakistani-born Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at Bethesda, Md. Detection, however, is doubly difficult in the peculiar and treacherous kind of injury known as "whiplash"-the result of the sudden forward-and-backward snapping of the head that is common in rear-end auto accidents...
...wage guideline, already shattered in autos and aluminum, is under the added strain of a growing shortage of skilled labor. Shipbuilders, aircraft and steel companies and machine shops are short of engineers, pipe fitters, welders, mechanics and metal workers; auto companies are lending their tool and die operators to machine toolmakers to help them fill Detroit's orders...
...uniform, gold-topped swagger stick and black Moslem cap, Sukarno had fallen ill twice during August, probably because of his chronic kidney trouble. During his recent trip to Europe, Viennese specialists urged an operation, but Sukarno is said to fear the scalpel, since his horoscope predicts that he will die by steel...
...replace a Malaysian detachment in Borneo, thus demolishing whatever prospects Singapore may have had of reconciliation with Indonesia. Singapore's Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee declared: "Our defense is indivisible," and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman clapped him on the back, saying, "We will do or die together." Ministers of the two states are holding a series of meetings on economic cooperation, as well as preparing to negotiate with Britain the rewriting of defense treaties. Singapore seems certain to retain the economically important British military bases, with the additional proviso that they will be used for defensive purposes...
...force on the Rio Grande. Those were the last shots fired in the War Between the States. But the ensuing silence did not long endure. Before the year was out, hostilities had been resumed on that bloodless battlefield where all wars, all campaigners and all causes go after they die: the history books. Today, one century later, it begins to seem possible that historians will go on enthusiastically rewriting the war until kingdom come...