Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
Long before the transports arrive, the frogmen mine the concrete and steel traps with lung-bursting patience, blast them out of the path of the assault troops. Donning rubber suits and shoulder-fitted oxygen tanks, they give the picture its most gripping sequence by slipping through the steel net of a Japanese harbor to mine its submarine pens. For good measure, the movie tosses in a tense situation aboard the frogmen's destroyer (commanded by Gary Merrill), when Widmark and Andrews undertake the ticklish job of disarming an unexploded Japanese torpedo that has pierced the ship's hull...
...absence of Britain's King George, down with a lung inflammation, Princess Elizabeth, dressed in a scarlet & gold tunic and a plumed tricorne fashioned after the headgear of a 1745 Grenadier colonel, mounted a police charger, sat sidesaddle to receive the annual salute from the Brigade of Guards at the Trooping of the Color...
...alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...
...Free translation: the snails that are host to the parasite causing swimmer's itch and even nastier diseases probably won't be found in the Han. But if you want to gamble on a dose of lung flukes, the Han is pretty sure to have them...