Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stricken woman was a victim of "food inhalation," an often fatal accident that is so often misdiagnosed as a heart attack that it has come to be called the café coronary. Partly as a result of these incorrect diagnoses, Florida Physicians WilLiam C. Eller and Roger K. Haugen report in the New England Journal of Medicine, choking on food is the sixth leading cause of accidental death in the country. Because, according to the National Safety Council, nearly 2,500 persons die while dining each year, the café coronary outranks aircraft accidents, firearms, lightning and snakebite...
...food most responsible for death by choking is steak, according to a study by the office of New York's chief medical examiner; it accounts for some 90% of the fatalities. Other killers are lobster tail, hard-boiled eggs, clams, sausage, turkey and even bread. The sheer volume of the fatal mouthful is often breathtakingly large: the average chunk of food extracted from the windpipe of victims, Eller and Haugen say, is about the size of a cigarette pack; in one case, they report, the piece was over 7 in. long. The temptation to swallow such unmanageable amounts seems...
...lengthy public trial and was convicted of murder in the first degree. Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence that Sirhan acted alone, a 110-minute accusatorial documentary film that opened in New York last week suggests that there was a second gunman in the hotel pantry, who actually fired the fatal shot...
...Angeles Coroner Thomas Noguchi, after an autopsy, testified that three bullets entered the Senator's body from the rear and that the fatal shot was fired into his brain from only inches behind his right...
...months it will be a year since the Vietnam "cease fire," but in fact the war is continuing. It progresses at a level lower than in previous years, but no less fatal for those who are killed, no less uprooting for those who are made homeless. At the same time that the war continues, apparently, the political techniques which helped turn many Americans against the Saigon government of Nguyen Van Thieu continue as well...