Word: postmortem
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...five-year study of the R.C.A.F.'s fatal accidents, said Dr. Manning, postmortem examination of the heart was possible in 24 cases, and eight pilots were found to have had coronary artery disease severe enough to be considered a probable cause of the accident. More significantly, said Dr. Manning, four of these eight had previously shown ECG abnormalities, even though the trouble had not been severe enough to ground them immediately...
Nothing, Retroactively. Two men emerged from the strike with their reputations somewhat brightened: New York's Mayor Wagner and veteran Labor Arbitrator Theodore E. Kheel. The goats were more numerous, but in a well-documented. 20,000-word postmortem. Times Labor Reporter A. H. Raskin narrowed the field to the two chief negotiators: Printers Union Leader Bert Powers and Times Vice President Amory H. Bradford...
Adolf Eichmann was dead and his ashes thrown into the Mediterranean, but his execution will probably stir debate for years to come. The first critical postmortem came from Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber. All along, Buber had been opposed to the trial because it cast Israel in the role of both accuser and judge (he would have preferred an international tribunal). He also felt that the death penalty was wrong because no punishment could really expiate the Nazi crimes. Eichmann's execution, explained Buber last week, may only give Germany's youth an easy way of escaping the guilt...
...ankles that she might have been wearing blue gloves and socks. This indicated heart damage. The doctors gave her all the heart stimulants they could think of, but within eleven hours she died. It turned out that she had been on the bottle (and off food) for three weeks. Postmortem examination showed a heart so damaged by beriberi as to induce shoshin...
...insane. She began digging the evidence out of the archives, soon called in her husband John, 38, professor of experimental medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, to help her with the technical aspects. He eventually became as interested as she was, wound up doing a detective-style postmortem. In History Today, the Butterfields spin their evidence into a tight...