Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infant was not big. Up to the time Frankie was falling in love in Woodland, the party had never had more than about 10,000 members. But what it "lacked in size, it made up for in lung power. Its piercing Marxist cry-that capitalism was robbing the worker of the wealth which he alone created-burned into the souls of some Americans like a hot skewer...
...thought it had worked well enough for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in prewar days to give the alien corn a try. For his nonsense section, Shevelson had even lifted one old'gag directly from the Zeitung: pictures of "man's first attempt to fly by his own lung power...
...rolled a spray-spattered eye at the four other sprinters splashing in other lanes until he saw whom he had to beat. Then, head down, he started churning, with a fast arm but a slow, deep kick that is uncommon to sprinters. A pinwheel fast turn and a lung-busting finish did the trick as usual. When Wally's big hand touched the tile 51.4 seconds after the start, he could add another A.A.U. championship to his collection of titles (fortnight ago, he was voted the all-collegiate swimmer...
Died. Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern, 62, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and only member of the royal family to join the Nazi party, which he served as an SA officer until Goring kicked him out in the 1934 purge; of a lung ailment; in Stuttgart...
...Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Librarian Frances Tomlinson Gardner, of the University of California Medical School, says it is doubtful that Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery...