Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operation. He was forced out of his first private practice because of local jealousies but managed to get scholarships when he needed them, including one to the University of Minnesota. There he studied for 21 years under Dr. Owen Wangensteen, who on Barnard's departure wangled a heart-lung machine for him. Barnard is liberal with his "if it were not for the generosity of," particularly to Wangensteen. On the other hand, a new lifesaving operation employing a tube inside the heart-thought up by Barnard during a dull sermon in church -was performed with some revisions two years...
...Terry Sawchuk, 40, New York Rangers' back-up goalie who during a 21-year career in the National Hockey League set a record of 103 regular-season shutouts and was considered by many to be the game's greatest goal tender; of a blood clot in the lung following injuries suffered in April during a brawl with Teammate Ron Stewart; in Manhattan...
Soft Particles. For a while last week, medical circles were abuzz with a rumor that a U.S.-designed atom-powered pacemaker had also been implanted-in an American patient. That word proved to be premature; scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute are still testing their prototypes in dogs...
Died. Thomas Butler, 57, the Scotland Yard detective who caught the "Great Train Robbers"; of lung cancer; in London. It took five years of tracking down clues from Britain to Morocco to South America before the Yard's "Gray Fox" finally nabbed the last of the 15 thieves who in August 1963 made off with more than $7,000,000 from a Glasgow-to-London mail train. Closing that case was the capstone of a 34-year career in which Butler, according to admiring colleagues, combined the intellect of Sherlock Holmes with the persistence of Inspector Maigret...
Arnold Miller, a coal miner running for the state legislature in West Virginia, said miners were dying by the hundreds of lung disease incurred under unhealthy working conditions. Dr. Donald Rasmussen, who works at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, said that increased dust control regulations would reduce the deaths from black lung disease by 90 per cent...