Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...circle of toadies and fools. His is the glutted cry of someone finally facing the truth about his life. Only he hasn't yet met the truth. For he has been lied to even more extensively than he supposes. Told that he's suffering from a minor intestinal ailment, he's actually riddled with cancer. Those closest to him have conspired to conceal his condition...
AILING. MARION BARRY, 59, mayor of Washington; from prostate cancer; in Washington. The controversy-dependent overseer of the nation's capital and his doctors insist the ailment was caught soon enough to ensure complete recovery...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Scourge of communism loses his TV series to a capitalist ailment: low ratings...
...times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage. "I feel trapped and stifled," says Pyle, 48, who was forced by a chronic heart ailment to take early retirement as Sutter Creek's postmaster. "You think, 'Oh, God, what if this house is killing...
...microscope at tissue samples from the teenager's body, he noted that the bronchioles, the tiniest airways in the lungs, were inflamed and scarred. These telltale signs, he reported last week, indicated that Taylor, like more than 6,000 other Americans each year, had died of a fairly common ailment: asthma...