Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Events scheduled are: 50-yard free style, back stroke, and breast stroke, and breast stroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 150-yard medley relay, and 200-yard free style relay...
From there on the trail followed by the Meadmen was a maze of 16 interlocked companies whose assets were kited back and forth with the stroke of a pen. Up went the combine's contracts-at war's end they had got $78,000,000 worth of business out of the Government...
Unlike most top-notch junior tennis players from Southern California, Herbie Flam has a clumsy-looking cramped stroke, often hits his forehand while awkwardly facing the net. Last week at Kalamazoo, Mich., skinny, 17-year-old Herbie did something more characteristic of his region: without dropping a set, he won the National Junior Championship for the second straight year, beating Floridian Buddy Behrens in the final, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2. He also kept a record straight: since 1933, only Southern Californians have won the National Junior...
Physicians, says Alvarez, too often dismiss such patients as neurotic or hypochondriac, argue that a stroke is impossible without such classic signs as muscular weakenings or loss of feeling in parts of the skin. But Alvarez insists that the brain can sustain thousands of tiny strokes with no symptoms beyond changes in personality. Nothing can be done to cure such patients, he admits, but doctors can emphasize that strokes may be far apart...
...York City's celebrated carrier, "Typhoid Mary" (Mary Mallon), stubbornly refused to have her gall bladder purged, spent most of her last 30 years either locked up or eluding police to take jobs as a cook. She infected some 51 people, and died in 1938 -of a stroke...