Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black box" theater in the Adams basement, there were more displays, including a show set up with a "doctor of death," a refrigerator with "hearts and brains and bones," a "grim reaper" and a formally arranged table with a fake human head under a banquet dish...
When Casey collapsed on Christmas Eve two years ago, Betty Lieu rushed him to the hospital, where doctors found his spleen was cancerous and removed it. The prognosis was grim. Even with chemotherapy, Casey would have only a few months to live. Desperate, Lieu, a retired legal secretary in Los Angeles, decided instead to take a chance on a holistic healer who offered to boost Casey's immune system with herbs. Much to Lieu's delight, Casey gained back the weight and energy he had lost, and his coat is once again shiny and full...
...TIME investigation has found that senior citizens in nursing homes are at far greater risk of death from neglect than their loved ones imagine. Owing to the work of lawyers, investigators and politicians who have begun examining the causes of thousands of nursing-home deaths across the U.S., the grim details are emerging of an extensive, blood-chilling and for-profit pattern of neglect. In Chicago last week a 73-count indictment was returned against a hospice operator charged with bilking Medicare and others of $28 million for services to the terminally ill that were never delivered. In Detroit...
After a disappointing fifth-place finish at last year's Ivy Tournament compiled with the loss of the team's top golfer--Luis Sanchez '97--the future indeed looked grim for the Crimson...
...safely. Though this might be seen as running counter to the College's stance against underage drinking, it is better to appear contradictory than to remain powerless to curb this threat to students' lives. At the very least, Krueger's terrible death has snapped college students back into the grim realization that, while drinking is enjoyable and harmless most of the time, when someone drinks so much that he or she loses all self-control, that person is flirting with death. That fact should be drilled into all first-years' minds...