Word: bedridden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mamie Eisenhower, 82, widow of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, after suffering a stroke in her Gettysburg, Pa., home and being rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Frail and bedridden for several months, the former First Lady is reported to have "some loss of function" in her right side and difficulty forming sentences...
...princes, a Prussian count and Actor Cary Grant. A granddaughter of the founder of the 5 and 10? store chain. Hutton inherited some $25 million at age twelve, but was long plagued by illnesses that ranged from kidney disease to cataracts, and spent her last years a recluse, often bedridden and weighing only...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...
...life was a series of afflictions: childhood illnesses that left him half deaf and half blind, recurrent episodes of near insanity, a career at Oxford that ended after a year because he could no longer afford the tuition, marriage to a woman 20 years his senior who died a bedridden alcoholic, years of inconceivably strenuous labor on his famous Dictionary, and in old age, loneliness and poverty. But he be longed among those "great experiencing natures," Bate says, whose lives and works illustrate the resilience of the will...
...Matisse's entire career. They belong with the grandest affirmations of the élan vital in Western art. Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of being hanged wonderfully concentrates the mind. In 1941, when he was 71, Matisse nearly died of an intestinal blockage and was bedridden for much of his remaining time. But he felt reborn, and the cut-outs would serve as most eloquent witnesses to an old man's new life...