Word: uremia
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...Pioneer Press), run by a family dynasty, whose successes allowed him to indulge his love of sports, as he put more than $100,000 into the Minnesota Vikings football team and $750,000 into the yacht Constellation in 1964, when it successfully defended the America's Cup; of uremia; in West Palm Beach...
...technique in the '20s and '30s and, declaring that modern composers "can't beat Beethoven at his own game," went on to pursue his vigorous ideas in more than 1,000 pieces, which he scored for everything from Pyrex bowls to lyre-like Japanese kotos; of uremia; in Shady...
...adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves him prey to intermittent paralysis, uremia-and high blood pressure...
...performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood...
...onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...