Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elated over disproving 21 of 23 assertions made by an opposition claimant to forgo celebration. It would be better, said Harlan, to nail down the discrepancies in the remaining two points. The thoroughness of the lawyer became the hallmark of the Supreme Court Justice. Harlan's death of spinal cancer last week at age 72, following his retirement in September, ended a 16-year career as one of the most notable professional craftsmen ever to serve on the Supreme Court...
...amateur-he was a practicing attorney-Jones ruled the fairways during golf's "Golden Age." Between 1923 and 1930 he was thirteen times a winner in major tournaments. Though his Grand Slam in 1930 marked the official end of his career, he continued to play until a crippling spinal disorder forced him to leave the links for the last time...
There were other misfortunes. For two tender years she painfully wore a metal back brace to correct a spinal curvature. On an 1887 ocean crossing-following a European tour that was unaccountably supposed to divorce Elliott from alcohol-the Roosevelts' ship was rammed by another, and Eleanor was treated to a 77tam'c-style scene of tragedy and hysteria that left her with a lifelong fear of water...
Centrist Judges. Harlan, who was hospitalized last August with a spinal cancer, was the court's most skilled craftsman. More closely attuned to Nixon's legal philosophy than Black, Harlan was a judicial conservative whose lucid opinions rested on scholarship and a devotion to precedent-even to the point of often discarding his own previous positions once a majority of his colleagues had rejected his argument. "He kept the court honest by insisting on acid analysis and intense self-reflection," notes Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam. "His genius was in his sense of the proper decision-making processes...
...Even swallowing polluted water very rarely results in a serious disease. This month, however, a study in the Archives of Environmental Health reports that the 16 Virginians who died over the past 34 years of amoebic meningoencephalitis, an infection of the brain and spinal cord, had all apparently caught the disease in three fresh-water lakes near Richmond...