Word: coughings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress reduced income tax rates in a two-stage, two-year process, it slashed the uniform 18% withholding rate to 14% in one swoop. The result was that about 20 million of the nation's 65 million taxpayers did not have enough withheld from their salaries, had to cough up some $500 million more...
...strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...
...Your cough-by-cough description of the royal (presidential) family's colds was so realistic that I picked up a germ from reading...
...President Johnson was home from the hospital, but still spending most of his time in bed. Newsmen, summoned to a bedroom press conference, found him propped up on a pillow, steam from an electric vaporizer swirling around his head. He looked disheveled, coughed, blew his nose, and complained: "I still have some of my cough and a throat irritation and some discharge from my nose. I don't have the bouncy feeling that I usually have...
Johnson is particularly susceptible to respiratory ailments because of a recurring bronchial weakness first contracted during high-altitude flying in World War II. He developed a scratchy throat and cough. On Friday night-with Lady Bird and Lynda gone, and Luci Baines out on a date-the President was pretty much alone in the White House and, according to aides, feeling a little sorry for himself. The White House physician, Rear Admiral George Burkley, gave him aspirin, some Declomycin and a dose of "the brown mixture," a generation-old cough remedy...