Word: pneumonia
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Though some congressional critics had suggested boycotting the speech, Fulbright persuaded them that it would be "foolish" and "disrespectful of the soldiers in Viet Nam." About the only notable absentee was Dirksen, who was stricken with pneumonia after a long spell in his garden on a chilly day and was confined to Walter Reed Army Hospital. Twenty-three Governors, the Joint Chiefs, the diplomatic corps and the entire Cabinet-excepting Rusk, who watched on TV-were on hand...
...trouble to attend their funerals. After 33 years of marriage marked by frequent periods of absenteeism, his wife sued him for divorce on grounds of desertion. His two sons died sordid deaths, one a suicide (after killing his girl friend's husband), the other from pneumonia contracted during a drinking bout. His daughter saw him so seldom that he could be considered a trespasser in her life...
...racing car in 1954, two years later won his first victory at the Silverstone International Trophy race with Stirling Moss at the wheel, and reached a peak in 1958 when his Vanwall beat the Italians and Germans in six out of ten Grand Prix races for the championship; of pneumonia; in London...
...ease the pain for uncounted millions of becorned, bunioned and otherwise footsore folk, who in 1904, with his brother William, a physician and inventor, started peddling the line of plasters, pads and Foot-Eazer supports that now sells around the world at the rate of $30 million annually; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...HARRY JOHNSTON'S death diminishes the South." Thus one of the nation's leading editors, Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution, saluted Reporter Harry Johnston, who died at 48, of emphysema and pneumonia, in his fourth year as chief of Time's Atlanta bureau...