Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council will show the Columbia football game movies at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. Post-mortem time has been advanced from Thursday nights in order to show the games while they are still fresh, Tuesday night showings will also settle arguments such as Cornell's disputed touchdown more quickly...
Terrorist killings followed. The body of Alfredo Abularach Sabagg, a salesman who had been inexplicably arrested and jailed a few days before, was returned to his family with the curt explanation: "Suicide." A post-mortem showed one arm broken, the sole of one foot burned, general bruises, and a bullet hole in the back of his head. Secretary of State Dulles spoke out bluntly against this "reign of terror" in a press conference. President Eisenhower added the weight of his disapproval and deep regret...
...infants' caskets and have granite or marble headstones with such inscriptions as "Resting on the Trail" and "Our Baby Girl." Over the holidays, however, many survivors also set up decorated Christmas trees or holly wreaths for the "little sleepers," and one San Francisco Chinese regularly spreads a post-mortem feast of cupcakes, fruit, lamb chops, boned chicken, hamburger, malted-milk tablets and Coca-Cola over the graves of two defunct dogs...
...they argued, this was not proof that cholesterol was the cause of the thickening. They wanted to see what went on in the coronary arteries of normal people, as well as the victims of heart attacks. So the two pathologists arranged to get parts of arteries from the post-mortem examinations of people who had died suddenly. In five years, they got artery samples from 250 individuals ranging in age from four months to 90 years. Some had died of heart attacks, others in accidents. Their findings...
...mostly in the form of letters), with the result that the Carlyles have begun to look like a pair of corpses which are constantly being re-exhumed to see which one had the arsenic. The virtue of this new disinterment by Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson (who did a similar post-mortem on The Four Brontës) is that it is thorough; no one will have much excuse for doing it again...