Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...
...dust, even hundreds of miles away, suffered temporary discomfort: dry and itchy noses, throats and eyes. Reported a resident of Missoula: "I feel like someone popped my eyeballs out and rolled them around in a sandbox." But most of the ash particles were too large to lodge in human lungs and permanently scar them. Moreover, the dust did not stay in the air long enough to cause silicosis, which is a lung disease that miners, masonry workers, sandblasters and toilers in similar occupations get from breathing dust-laden air over long periods of time...
Local 195, the city's largest union with 1100 members, is asking for improved dental and vision programs, and increased pay, clothing allowances, seniority benefits and heart and lung disease protection...
...through Ohio State as a night elevator operator, and after his Olympic triumphs pursued a variety of jobs: disc jockey, bandleader, salesman. A forceful speaker, he eventually prospered as a lecturer and headed his own Phoenix public relations firm. Until he entered the hospital in December, stricken by the lung cancer that killed him last week at the age of 66, he was, appropriately, serving as the State Department's "Ambassador to Sports...
DIED. James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens, 66, track-and-field legend who, by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, dashed Adolf Hitler's dreams of demonstrating Aryan supremacy; of lung cancer; in Tucson (see SPORT...