Word: strokings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brain is very malleable in infants and hasn't established any habits, so there is a better chance of the function of the damaged areas being taken over by the undamaged areas. For instance, early damage might not affect normal speech development. But a child having a stroke later, say at six or seven, is in big trouble...
Died. Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, 84, Negro evangelist, whose messages of hope lifted the spirits of untold thousands during the Depression; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims!" shouted Michaux in his nationwide radio sermons from Washington. So many people responded with screams and cash that Michaux was able to feed some 250,000 of the city's poor at his soup kitchen...
...deep, and the band is together again in a coherent ball of jarring, flaring sound. Beck takes off once more on guitar careening over into a feedback wail, he stops, scratches twice, Hopkins and Waller supply connecting riffs, Beck plays a horn blast. Amid all this discord, Beck, stroke of genius, does a willowing eddy of tune straight out of B.B. King. An abrupt stop again, Beck thumps the side of his guitar and bounces on his knees, Waller slams down harshly twice, Beck reels off long liquid strings picking up the early song tune. He starts a long uncoiling...
Died. Michael Angelo Musmanno, 71, U.S. lawyer who won worldwide notice in a succession of spectacular causes from the 1920s on; after a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Musmanno was one of the lawyers who defended Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, the judge who sentenced 14 Nazis to death at one of the Nurnberg trials in 1948, the witness who traveled to Israel to testify against Eichmann...
...repechage, with number three oar Steve Brooks in the stroke seat and Jake Fiechter '67 in number three, the Crimson had stayed off pace and then managed a spectacular comeback to get the second-place finish it needed to gain the finals...