Word: emphysema
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After meeting Chernenko, British Social Democratic Leader David Owen, a physician, said that he thought the new Soviet leader was suffering from emphysema, a disease marked by shortness of breath...
DIED. Robert Docking, 57, Democratic Governor of Kansas who served a record four terms (1967-74), cutting taxes, curtailing state spending and calling out the National Guard and state troopers in 1970 to deal with racial troubles; of emphysema; in Arkansas City, Kans...
Children whose mothers smoke face increased chances of contracting respiratory diseases such as emphysema, Harvard Medical School researchers have found...
Williams, 68, who suffers from emphysema, made the agreement from his bed in Kansas City's Park Lane Medical Center. "He is convinced that in his condition he is not going to survive incarceration," Defense Attorney Raymond G. Larroca told Chicago's U.S. district court judge Prentice H. Marshall, who acted after Larroca assured him the union leader would submit his written resignation this week and not interfere in future Teamsters affairs...
Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, suffering from emphysema, waited attentively last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court to be sentenced for his part in a bungled conspiracy to bribe then Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada. If anyone was moved by his illness, it was not U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall, who slapped Williams, 68, with a provisional maximum sentence: 55 years in prison and a fine...