Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight years ago, fearing for his life. The game had turned his hair grey at 21, and during tournaments he used to lose eight pounds and often chewed his tongue until blood ran. At last, in 1957, after he had won the world championship for the 15th time, a stroke convinced him that he ought to quit...
...superior intelligence and a gifted performer on eight musical instruments, but was by then so disoriented that he was considered incapable of ever adjusting to a normal life, spent the remaining years as a patient with special privileges, teaching music and working in the print shop; of a stroke; in Glenwood, Iowa...
...articles (one by federal housing official Robert Weaver) deal with New Towns, i.e. autonomous suburban communities planned and created in one stroke. Their main point of agreement is an insistence that lower-income housing be included. Both articles point out a trend toward upper-income New Towns; but as graduate student David Dasch observes, no town can exist without garbage men. Two basic assumptions in the design of New Towns seem to be that green expanses should be maximized, and ranch houses eliminated...
Having trouble reaching those nooks and crannies with your toothbrush? Unable to master the approved up-and-down stroke? Does dental floss shred in your mouth and stick between your teeth? Bleeding gums, perhaps? Then Aqua Tec Corp. of Fort Collins, Colo., has the perfect answer...
...national polity. In the early years that polity was imperial. Established by an act of secession from the British Empire, the U.S. early acquired territorial possessions in the West and in them exercised the prerogatives of empire. The U.S. averted the threat of secondary secessions by a stroke of political genius: orderly incorporation that transformed territories into states...