Word: comas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rambling Piedmont Hospital, Gene Talmadge grew terribly ill-he was suffering from hemolytic jaundice and cirrhosis of the liver. When the word got out, scores of policemen and firemen lined up at the hospital to offer blood. The Governor-elect was given transfusions. But he sank into a coma. One night at week's end he hiccuped loudly. Then his breathing stopped...
...Diabetic coma, the result of hyperglycemia (excessive sugar in the blood) and once the cause of most diabetic deaths, is now "an inexcusable complication, except when the coma is precipitated by infection or some other illness...
Knowing no reliable antidote, doctors too often stood by helplessly as a victim sank from coma into death. Last week, when a "suitable antidote" was finally announced, it seemed obvious-benzedrine, a stimulant as widely used as the barbiturates...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Politics. Eisenhower's part of Germany was in a political coma. Everything Nazi had been outlawed, but denazification was progressing against great obstacles (see INTERNATIONAL). The details...