Word: stroke
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...felt like Garnett was hooked,” Whitman said. “Balls that should have been strokes were being called lets because Malloy felt like Garnett was fishing. My opinion on that is that, yeah, when someone’s fishing, you don’t give them the benefit of the doubt, but whether you’re fishing or not, a stroke’s a stroke...
...second round of matches, freshman intercollegiate No. 7 Siddharth Suchde upset No. 6 Michael Ferreira at No. 2 in a hotly contested match that saw the competitors jaw with each other and complain about Oren’s stroke calls as Suchde dispatched the Trinity tri-captain...
...goal was not on a power play situation, but rather on a stroke of luck after Saints forward Whitney Carbone was nailed in the leg while blocking a shot...
...makers of HRT pills (most of which contain the hormones progestin and estrogen) to add another warning to their labels: that HRT may raise the risk of dementia in older women. A watershed 2002 study had already linked the drugs to increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, leading experts to conclude that for many women the risks of long-term use outweigh the benefits. The recent FDA directive was based on data published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that women on Prempro doubled their risk of Alzheimer's. --By Sora Song
DIED. RYSZARD KUKLINSKI, 73, Polish army colonel who was one of the CIA's most valuable spies during the cold war; after a stroke; in Tampa, Fla. He fought for his native country against the Nazis in World War II but became disenchanted in 1968 when he witnessed the Poles preparing to invade Czechoslovakia. From 1972 to '81, he provided some 35,000 pages of documents to the CIA, intelligence that an agency analyst said "virtually defined our knowledge" of the Warsaw Pact, and may have helped prevent a Soviet invasion of Poland...