Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fantastic," stroke Chris Dewing said. "It was the high point of my rowing career. It was one of those things you never expect to happen and then things start working out. It's just one of those things I'll always savor...
...were ranked third going into Eastern Sprints, having lost to both Princeton and Yale during the season," said stroke Matthew B. Emans '96. "However, we were able to win quite handily with a 4.5 second margin [at Sprints...
DIED. LES ASPIN, 56, ex-Clinton Defense Secretary; of a stroke; in Washington. Aspin's thoughtful manner made for a difficult fit with the snap-to-it Pentagon, where the former chair of the House Armed Services Committee confronted hot-button issues like gays in the military. When it was revealed that he had turned down requests for more tanks and armored vehicles in Somalia prior to the deaths of 18 American soldiers in a Mogadishu fire fight, Aspin resigned-after less than a year at the helm...
HOSPITALIZED. LES ASPIN, 56, former Defense Secretary; after a stroke; in Washington. Now the head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Aspin has a history of heart problems...
...dead turkey seems in mourning for itself, painted mostly in black, its pink head-the sole patch of bright color-propped up against a dark brown basket that is painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death...