Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief "causes of concern" have been injuries to Key runners which have thrown kinks into training schedules. These injuries include Lonergan's mysterious back ailment and a knee injury to sophomore Danny Herlihy. Both are expected to be back, however...
...Royal Caribbean cruise ship on a trip to Baja California returned early to Los Angeles last week after more than 400 passengers came down with an unidentified intestinal ailment. It may have been the reason one elderly man died. And just a few weeks ago, 1,200 disgruntled passengers were evacuated from the ocean liner Horizon in Bermuda because of the threat of Legionnaires' disease. Among customers on previous Horizon voyages this summer, there have been 11 confirmed cases of the potentially fatal pneumonia-like illness and 24 suspected cases. At least one victim died...
...real proto-Gump. Reagan too was relentlessly upbeat. Reagan too was extraordinarily lucky. And his luck, like Gump's, was often built on the backs of people who suffered off-screen. Forrest had bankrupt shrimpers, martyred Vietnam buddies, and his wife, whose death was remarkably demure, considering her ailment. Reagan scored points off America's poor; somehow managed to cloak himself in heroism while apologizing for a needless screw-up that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut; and avoided tarnishing his reputation for optimism by spending too much time on AIDS...
...catch up," he scolded. "Let's find somebody -- anybody. I don't care if it's the janitor over there, if he knows how." Feet on the table, Kennedy pulled a piece of rubber off his shoe sole, which was built up to ease his back ailment. He ran his hands through his hair, tapped his teeth with his fingernails. He was only 43 and holding the world in his hands, and it was slippery. But he relished the challenge...
...later to be killed by a falling tree. Tietou's uncle is going blind, and Uncle's girlfriend, star of an army theater troupe, is sent to jail because she refuses an order to have sex with political leaders. Shujuan's second husband (Li Xuejian) dies from a liver ailment aggravated by the rampant malnutrition of the early '60s. And during the spiteful frenzy of the Cultural Revolution, Shujuan's third husband (Guo Baochang) is humiliated and beaten by the righteous Red Guard. What is worse than young American rebels without a cause? Young Chinese cadres with...