Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard took both relays, and veterans Dave Abramson, Neville Hayes, and Bob Corris won individual contests in the 200, the butterfly, and the breast-stroke...
Even as Winston Churchill lingered between life and death last week, the press obituaries began to flow. Just three hours after his stroke, United Press International began moving 20,000 words that touched on every facet of his career. Columnists Marquis Childs, David Lawrence and James Reston, among many others, turned out past-tense tributes that read as if Churchill were already dead. "The advance obit writers had an easy time with Winston Churchill," Reston wrote. "He had anticipated all the great crises of life, even his own death...
...stroke stopped Sheeler's production in 1959. Some of his last works, now on view in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, show that his precise touch never faltered. The 14 paintings are executed in tempera on small Plexiglas plates, something he often did before expanding them on large canvases. Some seem like multiple-photo exposures of oil refineries, lonely steelscapes gyrating in the sky. Others are pure scenery, where patchy foliage parts to let a background watercolor peep through the Plexiglas...
...Winston Churchill died at 2:18 a.m. EST Sunday at the age of 90. He had been in a coma almost continuously since he suffered a stroke...
Goodbye, Arnie. On opening day, Palmer shot a one-over-par 72, six strokes off the pace-and was never heard from again. After two rounds, Casper was deadlocked at the top with Florida's Dan Sikes; Harney was a stroke back in third. A third-round 68 shot Paul into the lead, and the rest was easy-with a little bit of luck. Harney's wild No. 2-iron second shot on the par-five ninth hole barely missed a boundary fence, scooted through a crowd of fans in the rough, bounced into another crowd around...