Word: stroke
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...influence on such issues as government support for birth control, which he opposes. But the height of his power came in 1986-and again in January 2001, when Sin encouraged a second such public demonstration, which forced President Joseph Estrada from office. The ailing Sin, who suffered a mild stroke this past March, cloaked determination with a puckish sense of humor, greeting visitors to his official residence by saying "Welcome to the house...
KING FAHD Prime Minister Ruler since 1982, he began to diversify the country's economy. He suffered a debilitating stroke...
...judge by the boastful headlines, you might think Bombay's police had eliminated the city's terrorist threat at a stroke by killing a supposed bombing mastermind in the center of the metropolis last Friday night. "Black Monday's 'brain' shot dead," trumpeted the Indian Express. The truth may not be quite so heartening...
Franklin L. Ford, a former dean of the Faculty who spent nearly 40 years as a prominent member of the history department, died on Sunday, August 31, at a retirement home in Lexington, Mass., following complications from a stroke...
Stephen J. Ford ’69, the dean’s son, said that the stress of those tumultuous days had a harmful effect on his father, who suffered a mild stroke within a month of the University Hall takeover...