Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worn man, seriously ill, last week quietly injected himself into Washington's wild-swinging brawl over the State Department. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' leading expert on foreign policy, had been absent from the Senate floor for six weeks. Slowly recuperating from a lung operation (TIME, Oct. 10), he was forced to spend long hours in bed every day. While he was out of action, and partly because of his absence, the nation's bipartisan foreign policy had gone...
...Laborites. Two days before the election, Laski left his home, where he had been bedded with pneumonia, to speak in the constituency of North Hammersmith. He stood on the speaker's platform swaying, pale and weak. Since then he had been ill. One day last week his left lung collapsed and he was taken to the hospital. Next day, at 56, Harold Laski was dead. He once told a biographer: "I really don't think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest and anxious to see a decent world before...
...advantages of the new and sharper tool were obvious. Unlike routine chest X rays, the serum test will disclose tuberculosis in other parts of the body besides the lungs. An X ray shows lung spots, but the serum test helps to determine whether the spots are healed tuberculosis scars or other lung diseases such as cancer, abscess, pneumonia or silicosis...
Well sir, they are stamping on the faces of the poor again. For the second time in four months, they have jacked up the fare on Boston's one-lung transit system so that it now costs fifteen cents to go a mile and a half and catch a ball game at Braves Field. Hereafter, it would almost be cheaper to own a car, provided of course, you could find some place to park...