Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate in the Royal Navy during World War II, and never tapered off. As Lawrence lost weight and complained of always being tired, Dr. Paul Frederick Lister advised him to cut down. Still he went right on smoking. Last August Dr. Lister did a bronchoscopy, found cancer of the lung originating in a bronchus (one of the main branches of the windpipe). In little more than two months the cancer killed Lawrence, 51, husband and father...
...Lung. Even after General De Gaulle assured Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last month that he would lead France into the common market, as promised, the British remain half-convinced that De Gaulle is too visionary a leader to confine France in a Little Europe. They argue that the general is a deliberate man doing one thing at a time, first putting through his constitution, then holding elections, later laying down the lines of an Algerian settlement-and that he has yet to turn his magistral eye to economic problems...
...time he does, they say hopefully, De Gaulle may have freed the French economy from the ruinous burden of Algerian war and found it fit at last to throw away its iron lung and breathe the bracing air of free competition. But they are also uneasily aware that the general (who respects but does not love the British) intends to chart an international course independent of his allies. The British now fear that they cannot change events before Western Europe splits into two groups-the "ins" of the six-nation community, and the "outs...
...striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back end (the sideshows) of the carny, they plunked their dimes down for Jennie Thurman, "The Girl in the Iron Lung." (Healthy Jennie, 17, "did have a touch of polio" once when she was a little girl, insists her father, foreman at the Ferris wheel...
...those what's-on-your-mind questions, and it scored. "What," asked New York Daily News Inquiring Photographer Jimmy Jemail, "has been the effect on you of the recent scare stories relating smoking with lung cancer?" "Rather than give up smoking, I can't wait to change my name," answered blonde College Student Barbara Butkis...