Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dared criticize Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to his face. For 44 years he had been immersed in Chinese affairs, first as a correspondent and then as confidant, adviser and sometimes as policymaker. In March, when U.S. Navy doctors in Honolulu told him he could not survive a lung and stomach cancer aggravated by long internment in a Japanese prison camp, his only wish was to die in China...
...best-known polio paralytic in the U.S. was rounding out his tenth year in an iron lung. Jovial, 35-year-old Fred B. Snite Jr. had set a record: no other infantile paralysis victim in like case has survived more than a year. Last week, attended by his pretty wife Teresa and his three pretty little daughters (Pinkie, 6; Katherine, 3; Mary, 1), he was trundled onto a special railroad car in Chicago for his annual winter trip to Miami Beach...
...doctors' language, Fred was doing nicely. Though his 900-lb. iron lung still looked like his permanent home, his life in most other respects was almost normal. Now down to one physical therapist and two nurses (from a high of six), he gets out of his lung for three to seven hours each day, sits up in a light respirator, even "walks" a bit in a birdcage-like contraption...
...group of instrumentalists it is no doubt they were, with two clarinetists and one clarinet, a cornet, a trombone, a piano man and a suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence...
...have to look far to find the pale, undernourished look of an ex-occupant of the German concentration camp. Two Czech students bore with them the unmistakable back of the tubercular victim. In a country where 40% of the former members of concentration camps suffer from serious lung disease, they have only added their names to the waiting lists of the overcrowded sanitariums...