Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reported to Maimonides was AB positive. She was Helen Krouch, 29, a New Jersey office worker who had seemed in perfect health when she told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking lot from the pressure of a tumor upon her brain stem and lapsed into a fatal coma. But her father remembered, and her doctor called Maimonides, where she died...
...king is told his fate with absurd and explicit clarity at the play's beginning: "You're going to die in an hour and a half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once...
...Died. James L. B. Smith, 70, ichthyologist who first identified the coelacanth, a fish believed extinct for 70 million years; by his own hand (cyanide); in Grahamstown, South Africa. Until 1938, when a coelacanth was caught off the South African coast, scientists had seen it only in fossil form, a five-foot-long creature whose weird, leglike fins marked it a close relative of the amphibians that first linked sea and land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife...
...have to have someone dead to take his heart," Nadas noted. "Granted we are killing 50,000 persons per year on our highways, but there still is a possibility of a shortage of donors. One imagines the prospect of vultures waiting for these people to die...
...Gaulle and other foreigners. McGeorge Bundy was not quite right when he cracked that only the greedy, the frightened, country folk and Frenchmen love gold. Anybody who has seen his fortunes dissipated by recurrent invasions, inflations and devaluations views gold as a safer haven than any paper money. Men die to dig gold out of two-mile-deep mines and then bury it in hermetically sealed vaults because, when all other currencies fail, gold can buy anything, anywhere. Particularly prized by political refugees, nervous dictators and indulgent sugar daddies, gold is eternal, objective and anonymous. Says U.S. Economist Sidney Rolfe...