Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bird man moved through the neighborhood, in and out of driveways and over lawns, flapping the aluminum cricket bats together, not looking where he was going, but staring piercingly into the trees. The starlings stared back. The bird man kept the bats banging, every so often used one to stroke the tube hanging from his neck...
...enough to satisfy her youthful dream. She recorded an album of Haydn sonatas (released this summer), immediately made arrangements to record Bach's Three-Part Inventions. But that, at last, was denied. One morning last week, in her home in Connecticut, Wanda Landowska suffered a stroke, and there she died...
Marcel Proust was all but ready to retreat to his cork-lined room himself. His father died of a stroke in 1930s, and his mother had less than two years to live. Proust had been dismissed by the critics as "one of those pretty little society boys who've managed to get themselves pregnant with literature." In the next 17 years, puffing at antiasthma cigarettes and doping himself with Trional and morphine, he would salvage 34 years of wasted time with a masterpiece...
...Needing pars on the last two holes to win, the pressure finally cracked Los Angeles' tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 134 Ibs.) Jerry Barber, 43, who bogeyed both, lost the Professional Golfers' Association title by a single stroke to Palo Alto's burly Bob Rosburg, 32, who finished with a blazing 66 for a total of 277 at the Minneapolis Golf Club...
Died. Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy, 84, F.D.R.'s wartime personal chief of staff who rose through 40 years in naval rank to Chief of Naval Operations (1937-39), went to work after retirement as Ambassador to Vichy-France; of a stroke; in Washington. Shaggy-browed, coolly logical Bill Leahy proved his diplomacy by gaining the confidence of old Marshal Petain, Nazi-approved boss of conquered France, and helping to neutralize France. Recalled to the U.S. in 1942, Old Sea Dog Leahy stayed close to F.D.R.. advised him without unduly influencing him (he took exception to some...