Word: occured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem in a frame of reference that is more romantic and more telling: "The lack a single person feels most acutely is when he leaves his group to go off somewhere on a trip, one of those trips that his single status lets him enjoy. It can occur in front of a castle, on the quiet deck of a boat going up the Rhine, or on any overlook anywhere, looking at a sunset. Faced with such a sight, the natural tendency is to want to turn to someone to say, 'Isn't that beautiful!' and to enjoy...
...world and their leader was a cool-headed veteran of two Antarctica expeditions. I find their loss only a little short of unbelievable. It is interesting to note that all fatal accidents on Mount McKinley have involved very experienced climbers. Mountaineers should be aware that infrequent situations do occur that probably no one can cope with. To suggest that this recent disaster could have been foreseen would not only discredit the victims but also be unfair to future expeditions...
Only about 30% of U.S. deaths are followed by autopsies, and when postmortem findings are compared with ante-mortem diagnoses, glaring discrepancies often occur. Less than 50% of all cases of pulmonary embolism (in which a massive blood clot travels to the lungs) is correctly diagnosed before death. In 200 cases of bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, the diagnosis was wrong 33% of the time, and 37 cases of bleeding peptic ulcer were missed. Among 85 cases of liver abscess, 53 were unsuspected until the autopsy...
...such equipment has been kept in hospitals. But most heart attacks occur at home. It usually takes hours to get a patient to the equipment, though the first few minutes and hours after a heart attack are the most critical. Top U.S. Government physicians believe that in the case of at least one patient with a heart-attack history, namely Lyndon Johnson, the equipment should be installed in his home-the White House. Since that is not practicable for Everyman, the alternative is to rush the equipment to the patient...
...flashes of the perceptive wit which marked Roth's previous books do occur. His next book will be far more successful if Roth can develop important statements about America like those in When She Was Good by means of the brilliant details' of his previous books...