Word: cough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleaning the room. His toilet manners became very good; he always went to the proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion. A guttural gurgle meant contentment, and a soft cough meant that he was going to get vicious. When he tried to bite, Rosemarie once knocked him clear across the room, but Knorke did not hold this against...
...neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried by the boy's "hacking cough." At just about every crisis in his life, Will was able to find kindly acquaintances who would similarly ease his path by lending him money, giving him free room and board, finding him jobs...
...beautiful friendship gets thicker and thicker. The marshal displays a tender concern for his friend's health, nags him about his drinking, clucks about his tubercular cough. In the end. Doc staggers up from his deathbed and reels out "to die with the only friend I ever had.'' They both survive, and in the moment conventionally occupied by the clinch, the two heroes stand face to face. In a voice charged with emotion, the marshal says: "I just wantcha ta know I'd a never made it withoutcha." And as he drags himself off to join...
Short Game. In the vacation department, Ike's face was burned cherry red, his cough cured, his humor high, and he tackled Augusta's tough and tantalizing course every afternoon. He found his drives booming, his short game mediocre but good enough to score him in the high 80s. Evenings, in a long-established vacation ritual, were spent around the bridge table at "Mamie's Cottage." (Mamie herself took to her bed for a two-day rest, flew back to Washington at week's end to get ready for a heavy social week...
Slowly recovering from the hacking cough that has punctuated his speeches and conversation since Inauguration Day, President Eisenhower last week was discomforted by further complications. Striding into his 103rd press conference, the President surveyed his audience through eyes moist and red-rimmed from a stubborn head cold. Tamped into his left ear was a medicated wad of cotton. To newsmen about to ply him with such lackluster inquiries as whether he drinks the District of Columbia's fluoridated tap water (he does), Ike explained that his hearing temporarily was not good (Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder's diagnosis...