Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Would Die. There was always the chance that the rebels were bluffing. But a battalion of 600 crack Belgian paratroopers was loaded aboard U.S. C-130 turboprop transports at Belgium's Diest airbase, flown to a little-used U.S. military base on Ascension Island, a British outpost in the South Atlantic only six air hours from Stanleyville. If necessary for humanitarian reasons, the Belgian government later announced, the paratroopers would be dropped on Stanleyville...
...Congo, with a demand that "all foreign interference be ended at once." As for Gbenye, spouting fury he ordered the evacuation of all hostages from Stanleyville. Each hostage, he announced, had been turned over to three trusted rebels-and "at the slightest attack" on the city, all 860 would die...
...told a convention of nurses at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, "have seen the patient who is slowly dying of a chronic, debilitating illness and has been placed in the room farthest from the center of the ward. The doctors drop in briefly during rounds, glance at his chart, and leave almost immediately. The general attitude of the ward is: There's really nothing we can do for him-after all, he's dying anyway.' " This attitude is as appalling to many physicians as it is to just about all ministers of religion. But what...
...last analysis, each man must make his own accommodation to death. Almost universal is the sentiment of Dr. Charles W. Mayo, recently retired from active surgery at the Mayo Clinic: "I hope that when I die, it will be quick. But if there is some delay, then I hope I'll have somebody I love with me-somebody to hold my hand...
...owls, pigeons, even a smelly he-goat around the house. He loved to blow loudly on an old French army bugle. He was superstitious to a degree unsuspected in such an undisciplined liberal thinker. A hat thrown on a bed (meaning that someone in the house was going to die before the year was over) could throw him into a tantrum. Dancing was total depravity to Picasso, who was otherwise unbothered by convention...