Word: skakel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centuries-all the more reason, Eller and Haugen say, for modern doctors to be familiar with the symptoms. A son of the Roman Emperor Claudius I is said to have choked to death on a pear he tossed playfully into the air and then swallowed. More recently, Mrs. Joan Skakel, Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law, died after inhaling a chunk of meat in 1967. T.V. Soong, the brother of Madame Chiang Kaishek, choked to death in 1971 while dining, as did ex-Baseball Slugger Jimmy Foxx...