Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blanket of fog and censorship in which Alaska was muffled last week one ray of sunshine peeped: a letter from Major Bill Adams, onetime West Coast radioman. Printed in Broadcasting the letter told of a little "one-lung outfit," KODK, whose tiny transmitter made a welcome whistle in lonely Fort Greely on Kodiak Island...
...hour job. The young man woke up at one point and wanted to know what was going on, so they gave him an intravenous anesthetic and a hypodermic. They put a tube in the lung cavity to prevent air accumulation there. The patient rested, with a 50-50 chance...
Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...
...front dashed Lung Yun (the Cloud Dragon), Governor of Yunnan Province. With the dead general at his feet, he called on the little soldiers for another last stand. The Jap would soon cross the Salween. His rolling stock was already massing on the bluff. He would have to be stopped. It would be hard. Every beaten soldier there knew that the Japs across the Salween were from the crack Red Dragon armored division...
...golfer in a sand trap can usually give plenty of reasons for his being there. Last week the U.S. Golf Association gave him another: patriotism. Adopting the suggestion of Chicago's Fred B. Snite, father of the famed Iron Lung patient, the U.S.G.A. recommended that every U.S. golf club designate one of its traps a "U.S.O. trap." Every time a he-golfer lands there, he would be fined 25? (for she-golfers, 10?)-the proceeds to be turned over to the United Service Organizations...