Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought. Two days before his 16-year-old son Day was to marry, the boy's fiancée eloped with his best friend. When the newlyweds returned, the two boys whipped out revolvers and killed each other. In 1901, Bierce's second son died of pneumonia. Bierce, who later told H. L. Mencken he kept the ashes of one son in a cigar box, uttered a stoic "nothing matters," but weeks passed before he could write a line. When few bought his collected works (1909-12), he knew he was a has-been...
...century died before they were old enough to go to school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...
...dinner arrangements went forward, there was no sign that Robert and all five of his brothers are doomed to die from muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting away of muscle tissues which will make them more helpless each year until their weakened condition leads to death (probably from pneumonia...
...September in 1929, a man named Barrett Hoyt was dying of polio in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Since his breathing muscles were paralyzed, the doctor in charge decided to chance Drinker's respirator. The lung had only been tried once before, and then, the patient had died of pneumonia...
...landed at the National Airport and saluted the extraordinary committee of welcome-shivering generals, ambassadors, members of the Cabinet-and the President of the U.S., who wrung his hand and led him to his limousine, shooing off photographers with the anxious comment, "We can't give this fellow pneumonia." President and general drove off to the White House to lunch, to give Eisenhower a chance to say what he had to say first to his Commander in Chief...