Word: die
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Uriah the Hittite?" . . . And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . saying: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and die...
Even in the age of specialization in medicine, three-fourths of the people in the U.S. are born, live and die under the care of a general practitioner, their family doctor. In country districts the proportion is far higher. There, the relationship between the ailing and their doctors has not changed much since homesteading days. But there has been a great change in country doctors themselves...
Early Detection. Said Dr. Krasno: "People apparently in good health die suddenly on the golf course, in the train, on the street or in the office." Many of the conditions leading to these sudden deaths could have been detected, Dr. Krasno believes, with a sensitive instrument like...
...first phone call to the Metropolitan Opera office around noon one day last week was a little upsetting: Soprano Polyna Stoska was ill, would not be able to sing Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure that night. Even though she had not sung it for four years, and never at the Met, blonde Regina Resnik was told that she would have to come down from her rock as one of the Valkyries and sing the part. Then the Met got a real sticker: Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able...
...costs, including the steelworkers' new pension program. Bethlehem Steel Co. was the first of the big steelmakers to tell just how much its new pensions would cost. Chairman Eugene G. Grace said: "Only a relatively small percentage of employees will . . . receive pensions, because the great majority of them either die or otherwise terminate their employment before . . . pensionable...