Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they could prescribe anti-rejection drugs not only in the right amount but at the right time. Such timing is vitally important. It is dangerous to suppress the rejection mechanism completely, even after a transplant, because to do so leaves the patient defenseless against many potentially fatal infections...
After a near-fatal illness that cost $21,911.32 and 160 days in three hospitals, Eric Hodgins might pardonably have tried to forget it. Instead, he set out to write off his losses. The result, Episode - Report on the Accident Inside My Skull (Atheneum; $5), is Journalist Hodgins' wry, spry, keenly observed sto ry of a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and how it has affected his life for the past four years...
...Chicago (463,516 pupils), which had a huge boycott last fall, a smaller one-day walkout this time faced seem ingly fatal opposition from Negro politicians and the Urban League. Nonetheless, boycott leaders mustered 126,350 pupils (beyond normal absences of 46,000). The numerical success suggested that Chicago's political leaders cannot much longer ignore the issue...
...running movements. Their corpses are well nourished and show no signs of epidemic disease. But their internal organs are fat-clogged, degenerated and damaged by hemorrhages. Overcrowding seems somehow to upset the rabbits' pituitary and adrenal glands, causing their abnormal secretions to trigger a long chain of fatal troubles...
Secondly, Clay has two fatal defensive flaws: he fights with fists held far too low to provide adequate protection for his pretty face. Henry Cooper, lacklustre British champion, took advantage of this defect last summer and nearly spoiled Clay's perfect record. Cassius recovered from the Cooper blow and went on to win, but no one recovers from a Liston left hook...