Word: survivors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units for a survivor of the Nagasaki bombing who died...
Beloved Doc. The gravest medical emergencies in the islands usually find amphibious Dr. Heath close at hand. At Eastsound, Heath saw a light airplane crash with two occupants, hurried to the scene to give lifesaving aid to the single survivor. When a tree fell on an Orcas Island logger, Heath lugged the injured man piggyback to a Coast Guard ambulance plane. Another emergency call summoned Heath to a yacht to treat a woman who was bleeding dangerously from a severed artery in her thumb. Heath popped a rubber band around the thumb for a tourniquet, had an assistant sterilize instruments...
...Sunday. Dec. 28. 1879. the 13 central spans (the "High Girders") of the Tay Bridge broke under a wind of hurricane force and fell into the stormy estuary; with them fell a train carrying 75 men, women and children. There were no survivors. For weeks afterwards divers groped about the muddy estuary recovering pieces of railway hardware and bodies. Tay fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story...
Westward Ho the Wagons! (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) is Walt Disney's latest essay in gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing...
...does not stay alone for long, however, because people keep dropping in. First, there is a U.S. doctor named Paul Wilton, the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle. Since Dibela needs his medical skills, Rachel has a purposeful affair with him, even manages to convince herself that they are in love, and bears his illegitimate child (after he leaves). The next arrival is Caleb Aldrich, a malarial preacher who loves Africa nearly as much as Rachel does, and they both settle down to properly married life among the Bantus-not before hesitant Caleb has been pulled together...