Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget goes, Harvard has a cold, while other universities now have pneumonia. If it comes to pneumonia here, we'll have to take a look at more and more of these proposals...
...stopped by the Hilton Head Inn pool beforehand "for a few deep breaths of good air." The seer failed to see a stream of gas from a rusty chemical cylinder, however, and instead of air, inhaled some escaping chlorine. The result, says Astrologer Leek, was a case of chemical pneumonia, a four-day hospital stay and two months of severe headaches. Forgoing mystical incantations, the astrologer last week resorted to another old remedy: a $1.5 million lawsuit against the hotel and chlorine company for negligence...
Died. Clairmont L. Egtvedt, 83, former president and board chairman of the Boeing Co.; of pneumonia; in Seattle. Starting as a draftsman in the company's two-story frame factory in 1917, the shy, University of Washington-trained engineer became Boeing's president in 1933 and served as chairman from 1939 until 1966. Determined to create a "superweapon of the air," he spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons...
...socialist." The Social Democratic Party has been in power for over 40 years now and has succeeded in establishing an elaborate network of social welfare programs designed to protect the individual from having to bear the full brunt of Acts of God or the Capitalist System. If you catch pneumonia or if you get liver cancer from vinyl chloride gas at work you need not worry about doctor bills. If your job becomes obsolete or if you are paralyzed in a car accident, the government provides any training and help in relocation necessary...
...Joseph illness" is peculiarly unpleasant. It usually starts with a loss of coordination, a drunken, staggering gait, and gradual slurring of speech. It ends, generally 20 years after its onset, in death, usually from pneumonia brought on by a gradual paralysis of the muscles involved in breathing...