Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moran emphasized Churchill's personal limitations. He had an obsession with posterity, writing his memoirs after suffering his worst stroke so that history would not blame him for the future," Moran said. "His mental processes were rather suspect," and "he had no respect for science though he led a war that was won by science," the doctor added...
...defined as the number of strokes an expert golfer should take on any given hole, but the experts are rewriting the definition. The winning score in January's Los Angeles Open was 15 under par, an improvement of four strokes over 1966. In the Phoenix Open, it was twelve under, as compared with six under last year; in the Tucson Open, it was 15 under, as compared with ten. Doug Sanders needed a nine-under 275 to eke out a one-stroke victory in last month's Doral Open, and when the Greater Greensboro Open reached the halfway...
...during World War IIs Normandy invasion, who served briefly as administrator of the U.N.'s relief agency, UNRRA, in postwar Germany, but was forced to resign when he outraged his boss, Fiorello La Guardia, by bluntly charging that Soviet spies were using UNRRA as a cover; of a stroke; in Northwood, England...
...Crimson is blessed with seven returning lettermen from the 1966 varsity, including cox Paul Hoffman. There is a three-way fight for the stroke position: senior Clint Allen last season's stroke, is being challenged by Ian Gardner '68, and Bob Goldkamp, who paced the first freshman shell last spring...
...Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit; of a stroke suffered in the middle of a performance; in Miami Beach...