Word: agoraphobiacs
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Died. William Ellery Leonard, 68, longtime agoraphobiac, poet (Two Lives), professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; of a heart ailment; in Madison. In his autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced...
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