Word: mannitol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Cantwell is finished and he knows it. To ease his heart pains he takes mannitol hexanitrate tablets and chases them with Martinis. In Venice he lives intensely with the things he cherishes most: his girl, whom he loves truly and well and who loves him truly and well in return, his memories of two wars, good food & drink, resentment of the high brass. His intimations of death are accurate. The time span of Across the River is three days. At the end of it, Colonel Cantwell is dead...
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