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Word: lunges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sir Roy Dobson, 76, chairman (1963-67) of the giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 19, 1968 | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...P.H.S. did not limit its concern to lung cancer, but pointed to an "increasing convergence" of new evidence that smoking can contribute to the development of heart disease. It does this, according to latest research, by producing a gap between the heart's demand for oxygen and the blood's ability to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Another Warning | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...life. Sliding down a beam as the roof fell, Piper, 69, plummeted onto the 5-ft.-long, l-in.-thick tool, which had lodged point up in a pile of debris. The crowbar rammed through Piper's scrotum, smashed his pelvis, punctured his intestines, stomach, diaphragm and a lung before stopping within a quarter of an inch to the right of his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: Pluck, Luck & Skill | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...comparative study of 200 lung-cancer patients and 200 victims of other chest diseases, made by the late Dr.David M. Kissen of Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, revealed that the cancer patients were less able to release their emotions. What's more, researchers reported last week, emotional inhibition parallels high per-capita cancer incidence among many peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: Emotional Link | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...Edinburgh, 15-year-old Alex Smith, Europe's first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: Question of Timing | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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