Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ikeda, a stocky man with a hoarse voice who recovered from a near-fatal skin disease in the 1930s, proved highly durable on the Washington ceremonial circuit. He chatted, via interpreter, with President Kennedy at the White House, made a hit at a stag luncheon given by Vice President Johnson by expressing, with deep feeling, Japan's appreciation for U.S. financial aid. Ikeda spent an afternoon in discussions with Rusk and aides in the State Department, and he and his pretty kimono-clad wife Mitsue and three daughters were guests at a Japan-America Society reception...
...Wade concurred with Dr. Travell's diagnosis of an ordinary lumbosacral strain, unconnected with the President's old, nearly fatal spinal fusion. But back in New York, Wade parried a reporter's query with the words: "I don't want you to finish your question. I don't want to say a thing about it." All of which left it pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used...
Since such skull-popping potions are occasionally fatal and almost always produce violence, the harried police spend much time raiding the stills, breaking up gang battles and arresting drunks. Some 25% of all arrests and prosecutions in South Africa are for liquor offenses; last year 312,520 liquor cases went to court, including 1,602 arrests of Africans for possessing yeast without a permit...
...most promising application of germfree research direct to man is in surgery. Despite all precautions, it has been impossible to protect a patient's wound completely against infection, which is still a common fatal complication of surgery. At Notre Dame, Bacteriologist Philip C. Trexler devised a plastic isolator, which has been modified at Walter Reed, and used at the University of Arkansas to deliver pigs...
...newly successful, about to marry a blonde Hollywood starlet, and already suffering the physical penalties of literary lionization-"the bloaty softness of his face, the bat's-flesh bags under his eyes." From that high or low point, Novelist Cassill traces the fever chart of Clem's fatal illness-his life-in an intricate series of flashbacks...