Word: vertigo
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...attitude lies in the sentences I have just quoted. The dream of power was always, until it was too late, recurring to him, but he was always a little 'dazed, doubtful, shy." In other words, it appears to me, from Adams' own words "the sense (of power) came like vertigo leaving the brain dazed, doubtful, shy," that he was one of the few in his time who could perceive the vastness of our political and social combinations and one of the very few who was overawed by them. As John had grasped the problem of independence, so Henry...
...Reed of Armour & Co. left him alone in a bedroom. A few minutes later Mr. White's sister-in-law passed the doorway, found the room empty, the French windows wide open. A coroner's jury of Mr. White's friends returned the verdict of vertigo, accidental death...
...Supreme Court at the Capitol, Associate Justice Edward Terry Sanford stopped in to see his dentist. He seated his big strong body in the dental chair, complained of a toothache. The dentist found an ulcerated molar, extracted it. As Justice Sanford started to get up an attack of vertigo sent him sprawling to the floor. Alarmed, the dentist called a physician who administered a hypodermic stimulant which failed to relieve the judge's mortal distress. Unconscious, Justice Sanford was carried to his home on Connecticut Avenue. There, before noon, he died of acute uremic poisoning.* Five hours later, three...
Died. Irwin R. Heilbroner, 39, vice president of Weber & Heilbroner, famed Manhattan clothiers, cousin of Founder Louis Heilbroner; from a 14-story fall supposedly caused by vertigo; in Manhattan...
Signs. Ways of recognizing old age: headaches, vertigo, apoplectic attacks, convulsions, sudden and profound lapses of memory, confusion, restlessness, aphasia, physical disability, inability to assimilate new ideas (misoneism, neophobia). (Menas S. Gregory of Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...