Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion suspect that A.D.A. could not fight its way out of a wet paper sack, we take the John Birch Society on its own assessment as a tightly knit, single-purposed conspiratorial cadre. There are a lot of things that scare me to death-nuclear war, automobile accidents, lung cancer, to mention but three-but I have only a limited time to devote to fright. I therefore have a scale of priorities on which the 'menace from the Right' ranks 23rd-between the fear of being eaten by piranha and the fear of college presidents...
...diagnose cancer of the stomach, which is hard to distinguish from simple ulcers of the stomach. Then other researchers began to use tetracycline to find other elusive cancers. A University of Oklahoma team headed by Dr. John P. Colmore got surprisingly good results from tests on patients with lung cancer. They reasoned that while it is hard to get test fluid containing cancer cells out of the lungs or bronchi, there are likely to be some in a patient's mucus. And since some mucus is swallowed, especially during sleep, there should be cancer cells in a patient...
Shrill Idealism. Perhaps in rebellion against tyrannical Daddy, Prescott's cynical, slatternly daughter Cordelia seduces one of his prize ex-pupils, Charley Strong, and shacks up with him in Paris. Poor Charley, missing one lung from shrapnel in World War I, has not long to live, and Cordelia genuinely loves him. But Prescott is determined to save them both. He pops up in Paris "at his most ebullient, his most awful." He takes over Charley and ousts Cordelia. When Charley dies, it is in Prescott's, not Cordelia's arms, and it is clear that Prescott...
...take the question of life or death in their own hands and shut off the artificial breathing of a potential donor, it was "exceedingly unlikely" that such a man would die at just the right time, while a waiting heart patient was being kept alive on the heart-lung machine...
...Budweiser the biggest brewer. It is the nation's second largest rail center. It served the first hot dog and the first ice-cream cone, was the site of the first balloon race. The corncob pipe was invented there. The first operation to remove a man's lung was performed there...