Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasant, he was born in Cordoba, the Moorish city in southern Spain, and picked it for his matador's name. At 15 he entered village amateur events, determined, as he recalls it, to do or die for his widowed mother: "I told her, 'I will dress you in mourning or I will buy you a house.' " In 1960, his first professional season, he killed 72 young bulls-and ragged though he was, won 90 ears, 31 tails, 13 hoofs for his heart-stopping brushes with death. The next year he fought 109 bulls and was the idol...
Mammals are much the same. The population cycles of jack rabbits in Minnesota seem to have little to do with the food supply. When the cycle approaches its peak, rabbits begin to die in horrible convulsions, with wild leaps and running movements. Their corpses are well nourished and show no signs of epidemic disease. But their internal organs are fat-clogged, degenerated and damaged by hemorrhages. Overcrowding seems somehow to upset the rabbits' pituitary and adrenal glands, causing their abnormal secretions to trigger a long chain of fatal troubles...
Only 40 years ago, a small island in Chesapeake Bay supported a few deer. They were given plenty of food, and they multiplied enthusiastically. But when the population reached one deer per acre, the animals began to die off. Their internal organs showed "adrenal stress," just like the Minnesota rabbits...
...presses on to a familiar clench-jawed conclusion. Bom has imagined it all-the encounter with Pirn, the divine listener, the grand design. He is alone in the mud with arms spread in the pitiful shape of a cross. His only solace is the belief that someday he will die...
...first issue will be financed largely with the proceeds of a party to be held tomorrow in Leverett House Old Library. It will include a seven-page poem by James Dickey, and a short novel by Clive Miller '59, entitled. The Right To Die...