Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Head of the Charles this year, she was there all day and spoke with every single Radcliffe crew, even the novices," says Laura Marx '94, hajek's coxswain. "She made the point that she was not the stroke of the varisity, but the captain of the whole team...
...himself quickly into the life of the court by taking sides in one of the wars of strong personalities that have occasionally riven it. In their 1979 Supreme Court tell-all, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote that when William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor is missing. Sheldon Goldman, a political-science professor...
...swimming great on Friday, lost his stroke on Saturday, but found it again in time to win his event...
Richard Milhous Nixon lay near death for four days last week in a Manhattan hospital, after suffering a severe stroke. But even before he died on Friday, we had decided to put him on the cover. Nixon has now appeared there 56 times, more than any other man or woman. This issue contains excerpts from his 10th book, Beyond Peace, to be published by Random House on May 18. In his six most recent works, beginning with The Real War in 1980, the former President dealt primarily with East-West relations. In what he called "probably my last book," Nixon...
...last week, as he lay dying in a stroke-induced coma, the verdict on his life and career was becoming, if not softer, at least more complicated. Messages from around the world poured into the hospital in New York City from the statesmen who admired his reach and strength, from the politicians he had dominated and from the citizens who loved him despite his gaping flaws. By the time he died at 9:08 Friday evening, something close to affection, born of such long familiarity, could be discerned, even from his enemies...