Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...
...struggle with paralysis ended one day in 1919 when Renoir was 76. Kept to his room at the end by a lung infection, he worked for several hours on a still-life of anemones, then motioned for someone to take the brush from his stiffened hand. "I think," he said, as he looked at what was to be his last painting, "I am beginning to understand something about...
...Roosevelt, who presided over the White House for 12 years as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, was hospitalized Sept. 26 with a lung infection and anemia, but failed to respond to treatment...
Sickly from birth, Andy became ill after only three months of the first grade, and since the debilitating lung ailment persisted, he never went back to school at all. He could scarcely read until he was 14, still has to depend on his wife to extricate him from his lawless spelling. N. C. Wyeth was delighted to have his son at home on the ground that "no great artist ever went to college." Year after year, Andy's talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today...
...Government has refused to take an official stand on the relationship between smoking and lung cancer up to this time. The advice of the Public Health Service, which has long contended that smoking is a highly probable cause of lung cancer, prompted President Kennedy to sponsor the study...