Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compulsive Adviser. In the 30 years since that day in Paris, nothing has shaken Jawaharlal Nehru's profound conviction that it is up to him to set people straight on the facts of life. Incurable victim of what he himself recognizes as a compulsion to give advice, India's Prime Minister indefatigably ladles out instruction to family, friends, his 382 million countrymen and the world at large...
...very real pain that follows many operations, and for the kind that so often bedevils the cancer victim, the experts agree that the best drugs are those of the morphine and methadone families. And the necessary doses can often be reduced by combining them with chlorpromazine. But because of addiction problems, the ideal drug to kill pain remains as elusive as the definition of pain itself...
...myths and produced some curious new facts. A shark is not shy. It does not have to turn on its back to attack. It does not attempt to swallow a man whole, but nips out steak-sized chunks. For some reason, perhaps the sharpness of the teeth, a victim scarcely feels the bite. A naval officer who spent twelve hours in the waters off Guadalcanal remembered feeling "a scratching, tickling sensation" in his left foot. "Slightly startled, I held it up. It was gushing blood. I peered into the water. Not ten feet away was the glistening, brown back...
...polo field at Windsor Great Park, the Duke of Edinburgh, a victim of a slipped cinch, took a tumble from his mount as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne watched. Back in the saddle again, Philip resumed the game, but his accident was interpreted by some as divine retribution: many English churchgoers have recently openly looked askance at the Duke's sporting on the Sabbath...
...what purpose are the added years put? Will these millions of aging men and women be allowed to fall victim to a succession of so-called degenerative diseases, finally become vegetables who have to be diapered and tube-fed and, in the phrase of Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, 60, live as "chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they...