Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the double-play relay arrived at first only slightly after Crimson catcher Al Liebgott in the bottom of the sixth inning, the umpire carried out unprotested euthanasia, finally ending Harvard's onslaught...
...Green Acres. CBS, further more, is striking fastest in cutting its losses: Slavery's People (92nd of 98 in the ratings) will die in November, Rawhide (84th) in January, and the literate but limited-appeal Trials of O'Brien 89th) is being readied for euthanasia...
...Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "the incident dramatizes the situation in which we find ourselves in regard to mercy killing. The religious community will quite soon have to rethink its whole stand on this." It is already doing so. Some Protestant theologians believe that euthanasia is morally justified to spare the suffering of the hopelessly ill. Says Unitarian Jack Mendelsohn, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church: "There are occasions when mercy killing is justified because it is desired by the person who is ill." More cautiously, the Roman Catholic Church follows the principle...
...strips, Mary Worth, who evolved from a seedy apple seller to today's genteel gadabout, has spawned innumerable imitators: Brenda Starr (girl reporter), Dondi (boy orphan), On Stage (actress), Apartment 3-G (career girls). Along with soap, Rex Morgan, M.D. dispenses medical advice on everything from leprosy to euthanasia...
...Nazi cause. They were criminals all the same, maintained Munich State Attorney Manfred Bode, and they were charged with more than 800 deaths. Between 1942 and 1945, these 14 "angels of death" had worked as nurses at the Obrawalde insane asylum in Brandenburg, where, under Adolf Hitler's "euthanasia" program, more than 8,000 physical and mental "defectives" were put to death...