Word: pneumonia
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...Charleston; Mondrian so furiously loved the dance that when the Dutch government banned it he refused to return home. He moved to New York, where the gridlike streets matched the syncopated rhythms of his art in paintings that he titled Boogie-Woogie. In 1944 he died there of pneumonia...
Time & Pangs. He did, but it took time. After spending six months in jail, he went to Sweden to recuperate, but there he contracted pleurisy and pneumonia. On doctor's orders he went to a seacoast village in Kenya, Africa, spent the next six months skindiving to rebuild his lungs and suffering through the pangs of withdrawal. He married a Swedish girl, settled in Elsinore, Denmark, in a villa in the shadow of the famed Kronborg Castle, and played throughout Europe for the next three years. When he returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than...
...Wisconsin's "Fighting Bob" La Follette and brother of longtime (1925-46) Senator "Young Bob," who served three terms as Governor of the state (1931-33 and 1935-39) but failed as head of a short-lived Progressive party revival and retired to private law practice; of pneumonia; in Madison...
...since 1947, pursuing his ex pansionist program as Prime Minister with a promise to double per capita income within ten years, until in 1961 Japan had the world's highest growth rate (18.9%) but also a record $1.5 billion trade deficit and the beginnings of a recession; of pneumonia, following surgery for throat cancer; in Tokyo...
...commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia; in Zurich, Switzerland...