Word: stupors
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...Lubbe's passionate protest, Judge Bunger suspended the trial for half an hour and the Dutchman was led below. When brought back into court he again seemed stupefied as in the past but suddenly began to writhe and gasp as though struggling to throw off his stupor. "I can't say anything," he moaned at last. "I have just been below. I have voices in my body. There are voices in my cell...
...solution at two-hour intervals both between and immediately after nursing during the "first critical three days of life." Instead of losing seven, eight ounces on the average, the specially fed children lost only an average two ounces. They also rapidly lost "the so-called physiologic apathy, somnolence and stupor in the newborn secondary to birth shock and the compensated acidosis universally present. ... All of the infants began to gain weight on the fifth day of life at a rate which far exceeded that of the babies who were left to fend for themselves...
...were dead. Encephalitis continued to strike sporadically throughout the nation (56 deaths from it outside St. Louis in recent months) but nowhere else was the disease epidemic. Nor were the peculiar symptoms of St. Louis' variety of encephalitis duplicated elsewhere. No St. Louis patient fell into the deep stupor which occurs in 80% of encephalitis cases...
...last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed to be in a befuddled stupor-possibly from opium which, as Jehol's chief crop, is supposed to have made Tang a Chinese silver dollar millionaire...
...murdered racketeers. He marries the daughter (Sylvia Sidney) of a packing millionaire, after meeting her behind a row of bottles at a penthouse. He grieves her by getting drunk inopportunely. He is drunk when they meet, drunk at her announcement party, slightly addled for their wedding, in a partial stupor on the night that his play, a "satiric comedy" in Restoration costume, has its premiere. "Merrily we go to hell," he says on such occasions. When March takes up with his leading lady, with whom he had been infatuated before his marriage, Sylvia Sidney sees that there is only...