Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...
...Taylor, died early in April, Barnard is still satisfied that his surgical spectacular was a success. The death, he explained last week, was not directly related to the operation. Taylor died not because his body rejected the new heart but as a result of a blood clot in his lung. Up to the time of his death, his two hearts were still pumping properly...
Died. Vincent Sheean, 75, Odyssean foreign correspondent and author; following treatment for lung cancer; in Arola, Italy. Sheean covered many of the century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best...
...Fort Campbell's flock of 5 million, there were almost 10 million birds at the military arsenal in nearby Milan, Tenn.. and another 1.5 million in the town of Paducah, Ky. The blackbirds battened on feed meant for livestock, and their droppings might spread histoplasmosis, a lung disease. Before retaliating, the Army issued an environmental statement, and defeated court suits brought by two humane societies (TIME, Feb. 24). Then the battle began...