Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asbestos has taken its toll among plant employees. Over 25 have died of lung cancer or asbesiosis. The death toll may reach 200 out of 900 plant workers...
...screamed to backstage technicians about misplaced cues, not knowing that her body mike was still on. Her complaints thundered all the way to the last row. Then, in a performance of The Devil's Disciple in Stratford, Conn., she stuck a hatpin in her chest, puncturing a lung. "I wasn't doing very well, anyway," she sighs. "I just didn't understand the part." To end the list, add only three words: Gable and Lombard, possibly the worst major movie of the decade. Says she: "You would think I would never have worked after that turkey...
...shortage. The hell with 'em. I haven't worked for 72 days, and I'm mad and disgusted like everyone else on this creek. But we got to get a contract we can live with." Says Robert Rumberd, who is 49 and was forced by black-lung disease to retire in 1973: "They can send the Army up here but they won't ever bring coal outta Cabin Creek...
...five years now, about 100 joggers of all ages, sizes and lung capacities have huffed away their Sunday mornings together along the streets of Los Altos Hills, Calif. The bucolic town, 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, offered a peaceful setting for the so-called fun runs-until David Proft, a town councilman and high school teacher, got irritated by the hordes that streamed past his home on narrow Moody Road. Charging that group jogging constituted a public danger to motorists and to the runners themselves, he persuaded the town council to draw up an ordinance that would force...
...letter on its decision last week, the state noted an "unusually large proportion of individuals, including children, the elderly and persons with chronic lung disease," living in the area that would be affected by the plant's emissions...