Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Walter E. ("Jack") Rollins, 66, country-and-western lyricist whose biggest hits were the kiddie favorites Peter Cottontail, Smokey the Bear and Frosty the Snow Man; of lung cancer; in Cincinnati...
Miller, on the other hand, was one of their own. A victim of black lung disease, after 26 years in the pits, he had become the chief spokesman for the miners in their battle to win compensation for black-lung disability. He campaigned on the theme of bringing the union closer to the miners-literally and figuratively. He promised not only to reduce the president's $50,000 salary, but also to relocate the union headquarters from Washington, D.C., to a spot nearer the mines. Miller, who had horrified the traditionalists by arguing for stronger controls of strip mining...
...sneak a letter home saying: "They are doing everything to hasten my death." The treatment of Galanskov has aroused anxiety over the condition of other sick political prisoners, such as former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 66, a war invalid, and Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, 30, who suffers from a lung disease...
...campaign has been turbulent. A third-generation miner who speaks in a soft, hoarse voice and suffers from the dreaded "black lung" disease of the pits, Candidate Miller, 50, carries a big stick-specifically, a shotgun beneath the seat of his car. He never hits the campaign trail without an armed bodyguard, while he ventures into pro-Boyle precincts that Yablonski stayed away from. He means to come back alive, which is why he keeps his schedule a secret. "They are not going to know where I'll be," Miller says, "and I won't be where they...
...Carmen must certainly rank as one of the most erotic of versions. In one scene of the opera, Carmen does a striptease, then lolls on a bed in her underwear, grabbing at Don José. Later the couple fall into bed and, through some miraculous exercise of lung power, manage to sing their love duet while they are passionately embracing...