Word: pneumonia
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...Which commonly resulted from horse and rabbit serum treatments for pneumonia...
Robert Frost has had more need than most men to draw in. Of the tragic deaths and illnesses in his family, the most crushing was the death of his wife in 1938. The shock to Frost was so great that he took to his bed with pneumonia. But he pulled through. Restored to his tough humor, when he underwent an operation for hemorrhoids he issued a bulletin: "I am resting on my laurels after an operation for asteroids...
...months, stubborn old Jan Christian Smuts fought off death. Exhausted by pneumonia and heart strain, the 80-year-old statesman made a slight concession to the enemy last June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...
...home of White House Correspondent Merriman (Thank You, Mr. President) Smith. There, last week, at the untimely age of 18 months, Flash died. The rumor that death was caused by an extra large slug of bourbon was disproved by the Department of Agriculture, which performed an autopsy. The verdict: pneumonia...
Died. Carl Van Doren,† 64, journeyman of letters; of a heart ailment complicated by pneumonia; in Torrington, Conn. Onetime teacher (Columbia), headmaster (Manhattan's fashionable Brearley School) and editor, he wrote a dozen volumes of literary studies and criticism, three Revolutionary War histories, a Pulitzer Prizewinning (1939) biography of Benjamin Franklin, an autobiography (Three Worlds), a novel (The Ninth Wave), short stories and introductions to scores of old & new books...