Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works backward from the knowledge of a self-luxuriating "poet's" death to the nature of it. His rich, ruthless mother had long shared her son's dubious traveled life, but when she had a slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin on his final, fatal trip. The cousin's appalling story of his death has caused the mother to have the girl put in a mental institution; now she is using her money as a club on relatives and doctor alike. Instead, the skeptical doctor (Robert Lansing) gives the girl an injection of a truth...
...Hungarian revolt demonstrated communism's "fatal defect"--an inability to blot out man's yearning for freedom even under dictatorship. This will lead to "the undoing" of communism "in a decade or more," perhaps sooner...
...that he had committed. But soon, between Prosecutor Joseph Wiseman's sharp questions and his own loose-lipped, boozy euphoria, Merrill found in growing confusion and fear that he was on trial for murder-and that his fourth host was the former state executioner. The crime: inducing a fatal heart attack in the boss whose job he coveted...
...half a dozen others that had recently arrived, this brain came from a child who had just died with cerebral palsy. It gave Dr. Perlstein, pediatrician at both Cook County and Michael Reese Hospitals, one more chance to learn additional details about the grim affliction which is not directly fatal but is severely handicapping, sometimes shortens life by lowering resistance. The specimen was listed in the brain registry of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (which Dr. Perlstein helped to found in 1949) and sent on to Pathologist Herman Josephy at Chicago State Hospital. Dr. Josephy may take as long...
This first game against B.U. should prove a very interesting test for the Crimson as the Terriers have always furnished rugged competition. Last February, they beat the varsity in the Beanpot tournament, 5 to 3, in a game that almost proved fatal to the varsity's NCAA chances. Down 3 to 0 near the end of the second period and apparently hopelessly out of the game, B.U. exploded for five goals to win the contest going away...