Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that these are merely tactics of self-defense in a world ruled by criminals far worse than he. For example: Claud Moggerhanger, a vice lord who employs Michael as his chauffeur, and Jack Leningrad, who recruits Michael to the gold-smuggling ring that he operates from inside his iron lung. Of him Moggerhanger remarks, "I'll smash his lung to pieces and watch him die like a fish on his own floor...
...Stonehenge in a torrential downpour pursuing a brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating it with Moggerhanger's daughter in the lavatory of an airliner high over France. As for that iron lung, it turns out to be fake...
Neither of the two previous patients to undergo heart-lung transplants lived for more than a few days after their operations. Still, South Africa's Dr. Christiaan Barnard had no hesitation about attempting the surgical spectacular last month. His patient, Adrian Herbert, 49, was near death from emphysema, and Barnard felt that the operation offered the only chance for survival (TIME, Aug. 9). Last week, 23 days after the operation, Herbert died at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital...
Though the patient survived longer than the other two heart-lung recipients had, it was a desperate struggle almost from the beginning. Three days after surgery, Herbert began to have difficulty breathing, and doctors opened his windpipe and inserted a tube to better ventilate his lungs. Later a bronchial leak required a second postoperative repair job. For several days afterward, Herbert appeared to be making progress. But on Aug. 13, his condition began to deteriorate despite further efforts to save...
...Technique. A fatal mugging provided one. Jackson Gunya, 28, died after neurosurgeons found his brain injury irreparable. Barnard was ready for the six-hour operation that centered on a new technique. First, Herbert's chest was opened, he was put on the heart-lung machine, and his heart was removed -all but part of the left auricle (upper chamber). Next, Barnard removed each lung, leaving most of the patient's bronchi (the two main branches from the windpipe). These were clamped. Then the surgeon closed off the stumps of the pulmonary veins attached to the left auricle...