Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absolute numbers, the increase in early deaths among heavy cigarette smokers is mainly from heart and artery disease. But the cause of death that shows by far the greatest proportionate jump is lung cancer: it is six times as common among all smokers as among nonsmokers, 9.35 times as common among cigarette smokers...
...difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their work being done by the heart-lung machine, the surgeon opened her right ventricle. At this moment, speaking through the hearing aid, Marmer asked the girl to open her eyes. She did so at once. He asked her to nod her head if she could hear...
Whatever the mechanics of cancer causation, early detection is essential. A case in point: lung cancer, which will not show up in chest X ray during its earlier stages. When it does show, it is often too late. The trick has been to get cells from lung secretions to make "Papanicoulaou smears" like those made famous in detecting cancer of the cervix and uterus...
There is a revivalist touch to his speechmaking: he starts slowly and sanely, ends up at a lung-bursting fever pitch that even includes personal attacks on Salazar himself: "I'll throw him out!" He has also challenged Salazar in the ex-professor's own field, economics: "Where did all the money go that we got for the cork, the wolfram, the sardines that we sold to both sides during the war? Only into the hands of the hundred privileged families...
...comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and Powell last week to escort Benita Hume Colman and the Colmans' only child, Juliet, to the funeral of Ronald Colman, dead of a lung infection...