Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gilt armchairs in scrupulous order of rank in the half-darkened Salle des Fêtes of Paris' Elysée Palace. As they did so, lights flooded the pink brocade curtains at the entrance to the onetime royal box that overlooks the room. Precisely at the stroke of four, white-gloved hands parted the curtains, and Charles de Gaulle, blinking against the lights, appeared in the box to open his second press conference since he became President of France eleven months...
...news from Pall Mall, Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...
...bequest was "the Capri scandal." There, in a Tiberian grotto, guarded by boys garbed as Franciscan friars, he staged Black Masses and homosexual orgies. When his wife protested, he had her locked up as insane. Just when the whole affair broke in the German press, Fritz suffered a fatal stroke and was eulogized by Kaiser Wilhelm II in a state funeral...
Sadness struck CCA hearts Saturday, though, when Solomons collapsed during the count in the Longfellow School Auditorium. City Councillor Alfred Vellucci, who caught Solomons and prevented his falling to the floor, said he apparently suffered a stroke. He was still on the danger list yesterday in Cambridge City Hospital...
...hides in a ditch while his men fight and die. For the sake of Cooper's father, a famous name in the Cavalry, the C.O. conceals the son's disgrace, assigns him to special duty as an awards officer. The coward, by a truly profound stroke of irony, is set up as the judge of what courage...