Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some very wrong-headed editorial judgement. We were appalled at the BGLAD editorial ("A New Way To Love," column, April 4, 1995) by Mr. Lat from whom we have come to expect hard-nosed, objective reportage, free of the liberal bias plaguing the majority of his colleagues. In one stroke Lat betrayed his formerly clear-minded and salient perspective. If this is some kind of joke, it is a rude and tasteless affront to common decency and the last bastions of morality at the College. Lat should leave these sorts of "jokes" to his liberal colleagues...
...were disappointed, but we knew it wasn't our best performance." junior stroke Laura Brookins said. "We know we have a lot more speed in us. If it had been our best performance, it would have been a much different race...
After the 500-meter mark, Brown simply settled and moved. The Bears gradually increased their lead with every stroke...
Wilfrid Sheed's In Love with Daylight (Simon & Schuster; 252 pages; $23) and Paul West's A Stroke of Genius (Viking; 181 pages; $21.95) are similar medical memoirs, kind of Blue Cross specials in which the writers recount their tussles with diseases and the imperfect professionals who treat them. Sheed is a novelist, essayist and critic with few equals in the styling of buoyant observations on the decline and fall of just about everything. Prolific only begins to describe West, whose 14 novels, nine works of nonfiction and two volumes of poetry exhibit a range of imagination and richness...
...used to weird sensations in his head. So when he felt a familiar woozy pain coming on, he downed a tumbler of Cognac and went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...