Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...babies born in the U.S. last week, the great majority will grow into normal, healthy children. But 1,600 or so will die before their first birthday-an annual total of 80,000. Anxious to reduce that toll, the Federal Government's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development chose last week-when baby-food manufacturers were celebrating National Baby Week-to stage an Atlantic City seminar with the somber title "Why Babies Die...
Reducing the Rate. The answer to the question of why babies die is that the techniques and knowledge that exist are simply not used in many cases. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, the new head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...
...film of cancer-riddled lungs or of an emphysema patient who does not have enough breath to blow out a match. From time to time, a Laugh-In-style "crawl" message crosses the bottom of the TV screen with a variety of warnings, such as "41% of heavy smokers die before...
...mortality, the paralytic realization of death. There are too many bruises on your arm, so probe a little, who cares anymore? It'll only hurt for a second. Push -- watchit goddamit your fingers are so wet it's slipping shit!--the bubbles are out. One last review before you die...
Booming and Banging. The only pressure the Senators are feeling these days is trying to live up to the handy die-turns of "No. 9," as they reverently refer to Williams. Brinkman, who hit a pathetic .187 last year, keeps reminding himself to "meet the ball, meet the ball." In the season's opener he did, getting two hits. "I think that's significant as hell," says Williams. "Why? Because Brinkman thinks it is, that's why." "No. 9 told me to get more hip in my swing," says Casanova, recalling the game in which he swiveled...