Word: pneumonia
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...election results were almost universally interpreted in Israel as a vote against Labor rather than for Begin, even though the strong-willed little Polish immigrant has long been recognized as one of the country's most dynamic politicians. Begin suffered a heart attack (complicated by pneumonia) at the beginning of the eleven-week campaign, but he displayed surprising vigor when he appeared before hundreds of cheering supporters last week in Tel Aviv at Likud headquarters?known as "the Castle"?to claim victory. He was asked, as Premier-designate, what his plans were for the occupied territories in the West...
...mother there exists a bond religious in intensity: he is "both a trophy and a burden, she the successful recipient and suffering host." Her suffering reaches its apex when it turns out that Andrew's persistent excursions from home have an otherworldly goal; after his death of pneumonia, the longing for escape which was his by nature is projected onto Colin by his ravaged parents with a fervor which is again religious...
...care for Churchill, then 65. The doctor and his patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family and the British Medical Association...
Died. Nunnally Johnson, 79, the witty Georgian who was one of Hollywood's most versatile and highly paid screenwriters and producers; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. After stints as a newspaperman and a humorist for the Saturday Evening Post, Johnson wrote nearly 100 screenplays in 35 years, including such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Three Faces of Eve. A wisecracker, he quipped after two divorces: "I always insist on custody of the mother...
Last week, after months of patient investigation, CDC officials in Atlanta proudly announced that one of the agency's researchers had apparently found the cause of Legionnaires' disease. The likely culprit: a hitherto unknown rod-shaped bacterium that also may have caused an unexplained outbreak of a pneumonia-like disease that killed at least 16 people in 1965 at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington...