Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article was false and libelous. "I urge you to stop its distribution," wrote Shawn. "I know exactly what Wolfe's article is-a vicious, murderous attack on me and the magazine I work for. It is a ruthless and reckless article; it is pure sensation-mongering ... In one stroke it puts the Herald Tribune right down in the gutter with the Graphic, the Enquirer, and Confidential...
Then, in a master political stroke, Chairman Wilbur Mills proposed a sugarcoated, horse-pill-sized medical care bill containing aspects of all three plans. And last week, by a 17-8 vote, the committee approved the Mills bill. Its key provisions...
Died. Mae Murray, 75, blonde queen of Hollywood's Babylonian babyhood, who danced out of the Ziegfeld Follies into an endless string of silent-movie romances, most notably Erich Von Stroheim's 1925 The Merry Widow; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In love with her own publicity, she was a prototype and prisoner of stardom-"the girl with the bee-stung lips," who rode around in a gold-fitted Rolls, with sable rugs and liveried footmen, waltzed through four marriages and squandered $3,000,000 in the space of eight years. "I shall dance...
...factors will be going in Harvard's favor: the new indoor courts and the Southern trip. For the first time, the entire varsity has been able to practice in the winter before heading south during spring vacation. Stroke weaknesses and doubles problems are being ironed out now, while the Southern trip will be devoted to competitive-play...
...orbit was one of the most remarkable achievements of the remarkable age of space. The Soviet success, said Kurt Debus, German-born director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, "points to sophistication in manufacturing, computers, metallurgy, ballistics, space medicine and the pure sciences. This effort proved in one stroke their standing in all these fields...