Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
Vacationing in Fort Worth to get away from it all, Louisiana's ailing Democratic Governor Earl K. Long, 63, obstinately ignored his grievous state of health (a continuing mental crackup, failing heart, aftereffects of a mild stroke), declared that he is as knowledgeable as all his doctors and psychiatrists put together, "dis-hired" the whole passel of them. In the Will Rogers suite of the Hotel Texas next day, in rumpled drawers and sports shirt, Long received Methodist Parson G. W. French Jr., president of the city's General Ministers Association. After Long had rambled...
...Schmid's health should fail (he suffered a stroke in 1956), the party might put forward another member of the selection commission, a man who is otherwise being groomed to run for Chancellor in 1965 : West Berlin's dynamic Mayor Willy Brandt, 45. Nobody needs to worry where Willy stands on Communism...
...tight French defenses on the Morice Line had been partially flooded, and the rebels had slipped through them the day before from a Tunisian base camp, carrying money and supplies to reinforce rebels hiding in Algeria's Kabylie Mountains. They obviously hoped, by a bold stroke, to counter the growing impression (TIME, June 22) that the tide had turned against them in Algeria. But at dawn a French armored-car patrol spotted the rebels, and within an hour more than 3,000 French troops had encircled the tiny orange grove...
Died. Dorothy Shaver, 61, president of New York's Lord & Taylor; of a stroke; in Hudson, N.Y. Arkansas-born Dorothy Shaver climbed up through the world of fashion by her flair for showmanship, was elected Lord & Taylor's first woman president in 1945, enlivened her store by spraying perfume at the entrance, decorating the awnings with roses...