Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time...
...before the start of the big Bridgehampton Cup race, some 35,000 spectators lined the closed-course route. They craned at one of the three killing right-angle turns, or hurried down to the bridge where the cars jumped to a four-wheel takeoff. Some were attracted by the morbid sudden-death aspect of the sport, but mostly they were dedicated sports-car fans...
Miss Phoenix possessed not only a great deal of energy but a lively morbid imagination as well. It is rumored that she was the originator of the legend of The Beast that Walks in the Night, a horrid mythical creature that perpetrates outrageous crimes upon unsuspecting announcers...
...dramatic Gigolo and Gigolette, in which a high-diver (Glynis Johns) plans to commit suicide because she thinks her husband no longer loves her. Reassured of his affection, she safely makes the 80-ft. leap into a five-foot tank of flaming water while morbid Riviera spectators look...
Although he refused to commit himself until more information about the results of the boron experiments is available, Sweet admitted it was hoped that some day a point would be reached where the therapy would take the place of surgery, when "it is possible to destroy the morbid tissue without brain injury...