Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dunn took her seat, sandwiched between Knowles and Fineberg. At last the murmurs about the "historic moment" and "the beginning of a new era" quieted down. With a stroke of a pen, Sheerr and Rudenstine signed a seven-page statement of intent to merge. And in the burst of applause that followed, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, so long in the making, was born...
Battling 25 mph winds, Dost and Vazzales led the team with combined scores of 156, while MacBean was one stroke back...
...while Heimert has gained so much out of the last five years, a family legacy of diabetes has cast a shadow. Unable to work for two years for health reasons, he had surgery in an attempt to clear up his arteries in the February of 1997. He suffered a stroke and ultimately had to have his leg partially amputated...
...stroke, Mr. Lamont's interest in and care for the library will eliminate the single most persistent irritant in the lives of hundreds of students," Cole told the Alumni Bulletin at the time...
...With the stroke of countless pens on thousands of prescription pads, the American coming-of-age experience--the stuff of endless novels, movies and pop songs--could gradually be rendered unrecognizable. Goodbye Salinger, Elvis and Bob Dylan; hello psychopharmacology. "The kids in my school traded Zoloft and Prozac pills the way kids used to trade baseball cards," says Stephen Morris, an Episcopal priest and former chaplain at a Texas parochial school. Of course, this school experience doesn't prove that schoolyards everywhere have turned into bustling prescription-drug bazaars. But Morris, who headed a schoolwide committee called Addressing Behaviors...