Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long section of the saphenous vein, one of four major veins that carry blood from the lower limbs to the heart. Effler began rapping out commands like a drill sergeant, initiating the procedure to shut down the patient's heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine. Then, after stopping the still-beating heart with a split-second electric shock ("Juice!" he demanded), Effler began the operation that would save his patient's life-inserting pieces of vein cut from the leg to bypass two blocked coronary arteries, the heart muscle's principal source...
...Chinese also seemed behind the news on a broad range of topics. A noticeable number of Peking's citizens, for example, are inveterate smokers. When it was suggested to them that smoking might lead to lung cancer, they replied, "Oh, no, you must be wrong." They had also missed the single most dramatic event of the decade. The surprised visitors discovered that no Chinese publication had yet announced that Americans landed on the moon...
...only two choices: abortion or the heartbreak of delivering a hopelessly defective infant. But the mother whose unborn baby is found to have one of several hereditary enzyme deficiencies has a more acceptable alternative, for medicine has developed techniques for treating many such illnesses. An amniotic test for fetal lung maturity, for example, has helped warn doctors when a child may be born with hyaline membrane disease, which blocks proper breathing. In those cases, birth can be delayed by sedation until tests show the baby ready to breathe on its own. Tests that permit prompt postnatal detection of PKU give...
Bisexual Hairdo. Despite Stravinsky's fragile, birdlike appearance (in his prime, 5 ft. 3 in., 120 lbs.), he had indomitable physical zest. Repeated onslaughts of lung congestion, blood clotting and surgery reduced his body to "a ruin," according to his doctor. Yet until the end, which was attributed to arteriosclerotic heart disease, every one of his maladies seemed somewhat curable, save for his hypochondria. The remarkable features that had been caricatured by such friends as Cocteau and Picasso -bull-fiddle nose, guitar-like ears, pince-nez, natty mustache-remained mobile and alert. Stravinsky carried on with the conversational crowds...
...motel room in Imperial Beach, Calif., the thin man from Arizona puffed nervously on a cigarette as he told his story. Suffering from cancer of the lung, he was told last fall that he had only months to live. Two weeks ago, he came to Imperial Beach, and since then he has regularly driven across the border to Tijuana, Mexico, and visited a clinic where he receives a shot of Laetrile, a controversial drug that has been outlawed in the U.S. since 1963. Already, he claims to be better. Says he: "I feel now like I'm not going...