Word: mortalizes
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...brought inside and the affected parts warmed with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following page...
...have been so overwhelmed by the onslaught of secular philosophies, Henry believes, that they have retreated into various forms of subjectivism to protect their claims of truth. One of Henry's major targets is the late Karl Earth, who thought that God could be known only through a mortal's inner decision and obedience. The result of such Christian existentialism has not been the protection of faith, Henry argues, but the "suicide of theology...
...MORTAL LESSONS: NOTES ON THE ART OF SURGERY by RICHARD SELZER...
Would-be surgeons are required to study Gray's Anatomy before walking into the operating room. They ought to study Mortal Lessons as assiduously. Medical texts can only teach the location of the internal organs and explain the techniques of surgery. Richard Selzer forces physicians to think about the morality of medicine - and to search for meaning in the rituals of an art "at once murderous, painful, healing and full of love...
...Plains, he listened to 16 of them for five hours straight?with one five-minute bathroom break. Only water was served. "Before we won, we served Cokes," said Carter, the closest he came to humor. Reports one participant, Economist Arthur Okun: "He is totally able to banish anything, any mortal concerns, like a crick in the backside or thirst or hunger or anything else." Adds Economist Walter Heller: "We call him 'Iron Pants...