Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. LI SHUXIAN, 72, the last wife of China's last Emperor, Pu Yi, who abdicated from the Dragon Throne at age 6; of lung cancer; in Beijing. Li was a nurse at the hospital where Pu Yi received treatment while he was a prisoner of Mao's harsh "re-education" program. Of their marriage in 1962, Pu Yi wrote, "I and my bride...started our own little home, and this ordinary home was, to me, something extraordinary...
DIED. EDWARD MULHARE, 74, Irish-born actor who made a career playing astringent Englishmen; of lung cancer; in Van Nuys, Calif. Mulhare followed in Rex Harrison's footsteps, playing Professor Henry Higgins on Broadway and the equally irascible Captain Gregg in TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...
Semi-retired and holding the upper hand in a battle against lung cancer, he has returned to the northern Arizona mountains where he was born and raised...
DIED. TROY RUTTMAN, 67, brash hot rodder who sped to short-lived glory in 1952, becoming at 22 the youngest winner of the Indianapolis 500; of lung cancer; in Lake Havasu City, Ariz...
...achieve,'' said Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger. "If every state won their lawsuits tomorrow, we could not have the historic impact on children and on the public health that appears possible through these discussions.'' While the meeting was scheduled by that American Medical Association, however, members of the American Lung Association are lobbying hard against a settlement, calling it a bailout for big tobacco: "The tobacco industry has never demonstrated an ability to negotiate in good faith or live up to its promises,'' said association chief executive John Garrison. As the industry hastens to reach a settlement, pressure to curb...