Word: lifelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Babies who appear lifeless at birth because their mothers have been heavily dosed with morphine and sister drugs during labor may now be saved by another related drug (n-allyl-normorphine). Philadelphia's Dr. James E. Eckenhoff explained that despite the close chemical kinship, it is an antagonist to morphine and a quick antidote...
...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...
...most striking aspect of the current production is Robert O'Hearn's magnificent set. Without over crowding the stage it combines four rooms two bedrooms a kitchen and a parlor into one moldy lifeless farmhouse. Two drooping elms symbols of an oppressive divinity fold over the Cabot homestead snuffing out the life inside. All the action takes place in and outside this setting, which effectively fuses both the local color and the theme of puritanical repression...
...unfortunate that Teresa Wright chose Salt of the Earth for her return to the stage after a long absence. For, despite the competent efforts of Miss Wright and the rest of the cast, this new Mary Drayton comedy (based on Ardyth Kennelly's novel, "The Peacable Kingdom") is both lifeless and unfunny...
Atomic Motor Sales. Even before the Government had settled property claims battalions of snorting earthmovers plunged into the fields. They ripped through swamp gum thickets that had sheltered some of the finest turkey and partridge coverts in the East, churned the rich red clay into a lifeless desert. Huge huts sprang up, weird cylindrical towers rose against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading...