Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting took place on this war's loftiest battleground-10,000 ft. above sea level. Foot soldiers crawled up steep trails, through barbed, prickly grass. They used grenades, rifles, and mountain guns; they panted for breath and belabored pack animals. The advantage lay with the Japs, in whose rear good motor roads fed supplies and reinforcements. Behind the Chinese, communications were slow and tortuous...
...note": he finds that angina pectoris patients survive on the average eight years or more (after the first attack) instead of the generally accepted three-year period. Of 497 patients whose cases he has followed, average survival is already eight years and many are raising the average with every breath...
Moscow was gay and confident. Twice within the week gun salvos announced new successes. The Dnieper had been crossed. Kiev's recapture was near. The winter's chill breath was already upon the city, but nichevo-no matter. Victory was in the air and it smelled good after two cruel and distressing years...
...force was credited with sinking two Japanese cruisers," he said. "The Japanese had bracketed the ship I was on. The first salvo struck the water on one side and the second on another. We all took a long breath waiting for the third to hit us squarely but by that time the cruiser which had been firing at us was disabled. Several times we received scares when 1,000 pound aerial bombs and torpedoes just missed our ship...
...Thiouracil is a white powder with a bitter taste which two groups of Boston doctors are using successfully to relieve the fast heart rate, shortness of breath, nervousness and shakiness of patients with overactive thyroid glands. The doctors think the drug acts by preventing the gland from making too much hormone...