Word: gehrig
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...Medicine endorsed guidelines in 1984, and today's de facto decriminalization represents a compromise between euthanasia foes and advocates of full legalization. Periodic controversies roil the debate. In 1994, for instance, the Dutch TV station IKON's filming of the death by euthanasia of a man with Lou Gehrig's disease in a documentary, Death on Request, brought a denunciation from the Vatican...
After much introspection, I have decided that what I am a fan of is all the Yankees stand for. When I stand up in the bleachers and yell obscenities at opposing right fielders, I am swearing for Ruth, Gehrig, and Dimaggio. I raise my middle finger in the name of the stadium, its characters and its city...
DIED. BABE DAHLGREN, 84, New York Yankees first baseman who earned a footnote in baseball history as the man who replaced Lou Gehrig when the ailing star took himself out of the lineup on May 2, 1939, ending his then-record streak of 2,130 consecutive games; in Arcadia, California...
...What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going over old films of baseball greats and transferring them to tape so that when an announcer mentions Lou Gehrig, boom--the viewers see Gehrig...
Anyone who works in a highly visible enterprise toils in the shadow of legends: a ballplayer in Yankee Stadium knows he is standing where Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio once played. A newly inaugurated President stands on the Capitol rostrum knowing his words will be measured against those of Lincoln, F.D.R., J.F.K...