Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Quinlan, a modest drug-company section supervisor, loves his adopted daughter, Karen Anne. That is why the squarely built man with the short graying hair found himself in court last week, pleading for permission to let her die. Karen, 21, has been in a coma since the early morning of April 15, her breathing maintained by a machine called a respirator. By all accounts she has shriveled into something scarcely human. She weighs only 60 Ibs., and she is unable to move a muscle, to speak or to think. One doctor testified last week that she had become...
...trial that has attracted so much attention is an adversary proceeding in which there are no enemies. Neither the doctors who refused the Quinlans' request to remove Karen from her respirator nor the guardian appointed by the court to represent her nor the attorneys who represent the legal rights of the county and the state-none of these rival authorities can avoid a sense of uneasiness at prolonging the anguish of Joseph Quinlan and his wife Julia Ann. Their court argument is really a search for answers to questions for which there are no clear legal precedents...
...there any satisfactory explanations for how Karen got into her appalling situation. She was born of unknown parents in Pennsylvania and adopted by the Quinlans when she was four weeks old. The Quinlans still think of her as a friendly, outgoing girl, a fine skier and swimmer, who occasionally picked up a few extra dollars by singing in church. Friends from Morris Catholic High School, from which Karen graduated in 1972, describe her as quiet, but popular with the boys. Her employer at a ceramics company in Ledgewood, N.J., where she was a production worker until she was laid...
Coach Debi Field believes Radcliffe has several possible strong contenders for the All-College teams. "Maude Wood, Anne Depuis, Karen Linsley, and Carlene Rhodes are my strongest players," she said, "and if they have a good day they could really shine...
...debt and back road fees to repay. Besides, Springsteen is not greatly concerned about matters of finance. Says John Hammond: "In all my years in this business, he is the only person I've met who cares absolutely nothing about money." Springsteen lives sometimes with his girl friend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable-but not lavish-quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly...