Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orders, it later came out, of Tony Boyle, who was eventually convicted of murder and is now in prison. The murders sent shock waves of indignation across the coal fields. Shortly afterward, Miller, who had risen to prominence in West Virginia as president of the insurgent Black Lung Association, was chosen at a meeting of anti-Boyle factions to succeed Yablonski and lead the reform movement...
...kind of bravado that Duke Wayne loves. At 67 he is a powerful but tamed presence. Since losing a lung to cancer, Wayne has been forced to cut corners to save strength. In recent westerns he has used an apple crate to mount his horse while his veteran double, Chuck Robeson, worked overtime on camera riding...
...Tests. Doctors had discovered a clot in Nixon's right lung during that first hospital stay. Fortunately, the small clot did no major damage, and supposedly adequate doses of anticoagulant drugs to prevent formation of new clots enabled Nixon to go home to his San Clemente villa...
What was unexpected was Nixon's lapse into vascular shock six hours after the operation. Shock generally indicates partial collapse of the circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons...
...very next day, Nixon was readmitted to the Memorial Hospital Medical Center in Long Beach, when his doctor, John Lungren, was not satisfied with the results of routine tests on his treatment for phlebitis. There was no evidence of new lung clots, but Lungren reported that one major vein in Nixon's left leg was almost totally blocked, and there were several previously undetected clots in his left thigh. Nixon's dosage of anticoagulant drugs was increased, and Lungren said that if this is not successful, surgery might be necessary...