Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifties, resurrection of what Brooks calls their "Dead Sea Scrolls." And, spaced throughout 2000 and Thirteen, flashes of the delightful younger old man show through. Asked for his opinion of the greatest medical advance of his time, he pauses, and finally croaks," Liquid Pr ell --You put a heart-lung machine in your medicine cabinet, you open the door, it falls out--and what happens? It breaks!" And discussing his 400 or 500 marriages, of which exactly 71 per cent were successful, he boasts of his 42,000 children. "21,000 doctors," he says. "And not one comes...
David Halberstam returns to Cambridge to push his latest best-seller, a new way to determine if you have lung cancer or cataracts, entitled The Chest and the Eye Test...
Died. Harold Bingham Lee, 74, president of the 3.3 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; of lung and heart failure; in Salt Lake City. Lee rose to prominence in church circles as a welfare worker during the Depression, eventually developed the program into a $20 million enterprise. Named a member of the church's governing Council of the Twelve Apostles in 1941, Lee was one of the youngest men ever to become "prophet, seer, and revelator" of the Mormons. Lee succeeded 95-year-old Joseph Fielding Smith upon his death 18 months...
...general feeling is that the work is degrading-and that the pay should make up for it. Base pay for journeymen miners now is $92 a week, about what a London secretary makes. They are asking for $112.50. "Forty thousand miners in Britain have black lung," Bill Ball, a miner for 33 years, told TIME'S Skip Gates. "We work on our knees, dig on our knees, and shovel on our knees for an entire shift in a space 2 ft. 9 in. tall. If we have to relieve ourselves, we do it right on the spot...
...Martians kill off the "weak and the silly," leaving the earth to begin again, ruled by the strong. The MacKenzies are sensitive enough to perceive Wells's frustrated attempts to synthesize evolution and entropy into apocalypse as a projection of his own sense of personal collapse from chronic lung disease. But this is an exception. They often fail to explore the full influence of his personal life on his work beyond a superficial level...