Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes to the hospital stays there an average nine days longer than the married man-presumably because there is no one at home to take care of him during convalescence. The married man gets more out of life-in years, that is-because the single man tends to die earlier. A study at the Mental Research Institute of Berkeley, Calif., of men and women, nearly all of whom were 23 years old or more, found that the single male ranks highest in severe neurotic symptoms. Whether he is neurotic because he is single, or single because he is neurotic...
...Kinsey's celebrated reports were criticized by statisticians not so much for their moral implications but because they made sweeping presumptions on the basis of too small a sample (in the male study, only 5,300 men provided data). The Nielsen ratings, by which television programs live or die, have been justly attacked because Nielsen recorders are necessarily hooked to the sets of those viewers willing to have a recorder-a special class by definition, whose tastes may or may not correspond with those of the unpolled millions of the total TV audience...
...born to be an actress, and if they take it away from me, I will just lie down and die...
...James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Dorothy McGuire and Robert Taylor, to name a few. Just why, may have been explained a few years ago by ex-White House Aide Ted Sorensen, another Nebraska refugee. "The state," he complained, "is old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place to die...
Occasionally, the arresting thought of retribution plagues him, as when he sees a thief led to the guillotine or watches an associate shot down before his eyes. But even the disappearance of his closest cronies, who drop out or die one by one, does not subdue his larcenous spirit. Finally, he has everything: riches, an elegant home and the beautiful cousin, who rejoins him to share his life. He still cannot quit. In the camera's last view he has completed his heist, and is sitting on a train with satchels full of loot. Before the viewer...