Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week behind the rest," Jordan said, referring to the amount of time Stargel's ailment kept him inactive...
Stargel's ailment--which, incidentally, did not ostensibly result from football, according to Jordan--could thus give the Crimson a major handicap against the appearently-strong Lions...
...love, the musical. As Mrs. Anna Leonowens, tutor to the children of the King of Siam, she lived her part so intensely that she signed her personal letters "Mrs. Anna." Last month Gertrude was admitted to New York Hospital for treatment of what seemed to be a minor liver ailment (it was cancer). Last week, after a sudden crisis, the dancing feet were forever stilled. To her friends, it was as though the lights on Broadway had gone out. This week Gertrude Lawrence was buried in the shell pink satin dress she wore in The King and I sequence called...
...Duke of Windsor, after a bout of stomach trouble in Italy (with diagnoses ranging from gastroenteritis to ulcers), arrived in Paris with another ailment: an attack of lumbago so severe that the duchess and a plainclothesman had to help him off the train and into a waiting limousine, where he sat beside the chauffeur to get more leg room...
Surprisingly few U.S. visitors are taken to the hospital because of traffic accidents. Most are so shaken by their first sight of Paris traffic that they are extra careful in crossing streets. The commonest ailment treated at the hospital is "Paris tummy" -a catchall label for the painful bellyaches that result from too much French food and wine. Next in frequency are heart attacks, suffered by elderly businessmen pursuing delusions of youth in Montmartre. A few scared youngsters and sheepish oldsters drop in at the outpatient department after a possible exposure to venereal disease...