Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always present. Finally, in far-advanced arteriosclerosis, parts of the artery wall become hard and glassy looking. Often there are deposits of calcium. And large globules of fat (including cholesterol) help to narrow the arterial tube so that the blood slows down and may form a dangerous or fatal clot...
...womb from a mother who has a smoldering, low-grade infection. The baby may be sick at birth, or not until a few weeks later. In either event, the tiny Toxoplasma invaders usually cause inflammation of the brain and spinal cord so severe that it is crippling if not fatal. (Later children of the same mother are believed to be safe because she develops antibodies...
...last the judge reached one fatal morning on which Chevallier came home to the wife who had waited all night for him. Yvonne threatened suicide. "Go ahead," Pierre told her, "only wait until I've cleared out." According to Yvonne's testimony, she then picked up her gun, intending to do away with herself-but in the heat of the moment she absentmindedly pumped four shots into Pierre. Her small son Matthieu promptly burst into tears. She took him down to the concierge. Then she went upstairs, planning once again to kill herself. As she thought of Matthieu...
...report "conversations that have the advantage of being genuine." Then, smoothly, he began to play upon the fears of his audience: "The Kennan policy of containment . . . has failed." The alternative is "understanding or a third world war ... or maybe 30 years of cold war, which would be just as fatal." Echoing Malenkov, Nenni said that Russia "has no designs of conquest, since she considers her own security guaranteed." Then he had a quote from Stalin: "Our Revolution is not for export." At that point, amidst genuine laughter, someone shouted: "Mussolini said that...
...death." But they had little idea just how it might come about, i.e., how the emotion of fear could make the heart stop beating-victims of heart trouble are not likely to be sitting in a doctor's office having an electrocardiogram taken when they suffer a fatal fright. Now some of the missing evidence...