One such recent event caused apoplexy around the world.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

They called the phenomenon "apoplexy," a Greek word that translates to being violently struck down, as if from a club.    From Wordnik.com.  [HowStuffWorks Daily Feed]

What is it with these people that having their worldview questioned results in apoplexy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Ghost Busters As Rightwing Agitprop] Reference

The symptoms were described as apoplexy, similar to those of a woman who died in Paris called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Midas] Reference

"It is said to have been a congestion of the brain, or apoplexy, which is the same thing, is it not?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

His father, son of the justice of peace, had died of a so-called apoplexy, having gone wrong in business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference

For being taken with the disease called apoplexy, he became insane and bit off his own tongue and then died.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference

You really should restrain yourself, too much excitement in a man of your age could lead to apoplexy, that is if you are not already there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

What is the reason that cases of sudden death, by so-called "apoplexy," crowd together into a few hours?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference

If I remember correctly, the patrol leader, suffering from some kind of apoplexy, screamed, I'm not a turd!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

They whispered among themselves, and the coroner made out the verdict "apoplexy," and it was in some way hushed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

IN COMPRESSION OF THE BRAIN from any cause, such as apoplexy, or a piece of fractured bone pressing on it, there is loss of sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

The column certainly hit the nail on the head with the "apoplexy" comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewTeeVee] Reference

It also creates a disposition to certain diseases, such as apoplexy, dropsy, ulcers in the legs, and makes all diseases difficult to cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

It was not without reason he feared apoplexy, for Ex-Gov.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference

The French say he died of apoplexy, the English by poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

This "Webcasting" concept sends push opponents into apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet Gets Pushy] Reference

He had been struck with apoplexy, and survived but a few hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Like apoplexy, is caused by over feeding and lack of exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

Poor Vogotzine was as purple as if he had had a stroke of apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Sir Vane Peacock had died suddenly of apoplexy, brought on by a fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comical People] Reference

For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting, lay the person flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

He had recently been a sufferer from apoplexy, which finally took him off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

They are marching onward toward apoplexy or Bright's disease of the kidney.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Gout, in all its various forms of swelled limbs, colic, palsy, and apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

I would have never in my right mind thought a word to use in a song like apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. John Brings His Own Magic to 'Mercernary'] Reference

But in the case of the Taconic, I suspect it's, often as not, the result of apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Must Tackle the Taconic...] Reference

She sat beaming while her mother suffered apoplexy and her sisters gazed at her dreamily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The The Three Sisters] Reference

The Comte de Tecle had died of apoplexy, of which his state of health had long given warning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Now, Ed Meyers, if you're going to have apoplexy, don't you go and have it around this table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

He's depicted as hearing voices and given to collapsing in a heap of apoplexy after a trademark rant.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mad As Hell': Behind a Political-Season Refrain] Reference

Nearly two years ago he was attacked by a fit of apoplexy, from the effect of which his mind did not recover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

In no way can this inverse apoplexy be more healthfully or pleasantly induced than by a jolly game of cricket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

One day he might be stricken with apoplexy and leave his widow without resources, and his two daughters without a dowry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She continued in unsuspecting serenity until Claude de Buxieres, in his sixty-second year, died suddenly from a stroke of apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Dewdney, one of our boys, a weakly lad and far too delicate for the rough life he had adopted, died of heat apoplexy in the afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

I admitted the truth of the story, and the Colonel was so choked with merriment, that I feared lest he should be stricken with apoplexy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

After explaining to him the structural possibilities of apoplexy as a legacy, as I have to you in the cases of insanity, I would continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference