The researchers followed an ethnically diverse group of 1,625 residents from northern Manhattan whose average age was 68 and who had been stroke-free at the beginning of the study.
"I think Andy was a special person, someone who had been stroked by God.
John, who came often and spoke seldom, had been stroking his coat all evening.
He had been stroking his rosary beads, dozing and tilting till his head upset the mosquito netting.
The only way he could have seemed more like a Bond villain would be if he had been stroking a cat while speaking.
The distance was practically a tap-in the way Garrigus had been stroking his belly putter over the weekend when he shot 61-68.
He held out the comb that he had been stroking through his beard and asked if it was mine.
That the cow has been stroked?
Lord knows that wouldn't have been stroked.
The two discuss problems of consent; Hannah recalls having been stroked on the neck, in elementary school, by a teacher.
"I've been stroked," he says, verbally seizing the tragedy and putting his fate in the hands of something greater than himself".
