Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China's Manchu Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 64, who likes to spend his afternoons writing poetry and practicing calligraphy, has just won another smashing victory on the battlefield. After five years of struggle against rebellious tribes in the mountains of Szechwan, the Emperor's troops laid siege to the rebels' main stone fortress, constructed cannons on the spot and in March forced it to surrender. Ch'ien-lung's armies, which earlier defeated the Mongolians and Tibetans, have by now expanded his empire by some 600,000 square miles, notably in Sinkiang. He thus...
...cases of lung cancer, the treatments produced extensive destruction of malignant cells and noticeably improved the condition of the patients; four of them are still alive. In one cancer victim with an abdominal tumor six inches in diameter, the growth was shrunk to only 1½ inches; five months after it was removed, there was no detectable regrowth. One of the most impressive cases involved a patient with a cancerous kidney. Except for a small portion that had apparently been missed by the radio field, the entire tumor was destroyed...
What disturbs Miller most about the opposition is its chilling effect on his campaign to reform the U.M.W. In four years, the curt, pasty-faced Miller, a 22-year veteran of the mines and a victim of black-lung disease, has accomplished a lot. In 1974 he negotiated the richest contract in U.M.W. history, providing miners a 54% wage-and-benefit increase over three years. He has given members the right to elect board members and district officers, increased the union's safety staff, and lobbied toward passage in Congress a bill liberalizing compensation for black-lung sufferers...
...Carl A.L. Binger '10, honorary consultant in Psychiatry to the University Health Services, died Monday at his home in Cambridge at the age of 86. Binger pioneered the development of oxygen therapy and of oxygen tents for patients suffering from lung disease...
...accused Yablonski of not helping his 1964 campaign for re-election to the presidency, although Boyle took District 5 by a four-to-one margin. He charged Yablonski with insubordination because Yablonski had fought in the Pennsylvania legislature for the passage of a law compensating miners stricken with "black lung." Boyle thought the time was not right for the passage of such an act. He set out to stifle Yablonski by making him director of Labor's Nonpartisan League, the union's feeble political arm. Yablonski decided to challenge Boyle in the 1969 election. This decision led to his murder...