Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear-gas grenades and firing warning shots into the air, but not before a young bystander named Mohammed el Moushref fell beside his bicycle with a fatal ricochet-bullet wound in his chest...
...with the heart to require surgery. Some defects may be present in a child's heart or great vessels at birth (estimated annual U.S. incidence: 30,000 to 80,000 births). The great vessels (pulmonary artery and aorta) may be transposed, not harmful during fetal life but usually fatal soon after birth. Often there is a hole in the wall (septum) between the auricles or between the ventricles; there may be a hole permitting all four heart chambers to communicate. The aorta may override (straddle) both right and left ventricles. The neck (infundibulum) of the right ventricle...
...danger of stopping the heart is that if the surgeon inadvertently puts a stitch through a nerve bundle (which can later prove fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...
Such textbook faults would have been fatal at the National Field Trial Championships for bird dogs, a test that encourages professional handlers and emphasizes flawless technique.* The annual National Shooting Dog Championship is different-a competition among dogs that earn their keep by hunting, not performing. So spectators and judges alike look first to see how a dog performs the basic job of finding birds before worrying about his style and etiquette. Because it sticks to this practical approach and limits dog handlers to amateurs, the eight-year-old championship has become the nation's best test...
...pressure pocket in his lungs: his blood is at a higher pressure, and blood vessels (especially in the lungs, but also in the eye socket and ears) may burst. This will cause the spitting of frothy blood-an alarming symptom, but in this case not likely to be fatal...