Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quest for the presidency was finally, unquestionably over. In April, he had said he wasn't running but that night, after nominating his protege, Walter Mondale, for vice-president and blessing the ticket--the message was finally sinking in. It was all over. In two months would come cancer surgery and the beginning of a long fight destined to leave him without much chance even to view as an observer the presidential politics of the post-Humphrey years...
...introverts, who tend to be overweight, smoke, shun exercise and drink too much. While outgoing types are inclined to stay in better physical shape, Berkman concluded that their gregariousness, for unknown reasons, has much to do with the fact that they are more resistant to heart and circulatory diseases, cancer and strokes and less inclined to suicide. Which brings to mind Spinoza's observation, "Man is a social animal." And Psychologist James J. Lynch's new book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness...
...preposterous, complaining that her group had illegally appropriated the name of the rightful Congress Party. In swift retaliation, nine members of the party executive committee expelled Mrs. Gandhi from the party that she had dominated for over a decade. Declared one committee member, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi: "The cancer is out, and we are not carrying the burden of Mrs. Gandhi any more." In reply, Mrs. Gandhi expelled Munshi and the entire executive committee from her Congress Party...
DIED. Alberto Gainza Paz, 78, editor and publisher of Argentina's great 108-year-old La Prensa, who became an international symbol of a free press by defying Dictator Juan Perón; of cancer; in Buenos Aires. Forced into exile when Perón took over his paper in 1951, Gainza Paz resumed control in 1956 after the dictator's overthrow. Almost 20 years later La Prensa broke a story about the alleged misuse of a $700,000 check that contributed to the downfall of Perón's successor, his widow Isabel...
...looked at me and said 'Why can't they just let the poor man die.' He was a terminally ill patient with diffuse cancer. He was writhing in pain and gasping. Now should you do everything possible to resuscitate a patient in that condition...