Word: lungful
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DIED. OSCAR AUERBACH, 92, American pathologist who examined thousands of slides of human lung tissue to document anatomical evidence of a link between smoking and the development of lung cancer; in Livingston, New Jersey...
DIED. CASEY MILLER, 77, advocate of nonsexist language and coauthor of Words and Women (1976), who helped inspire changes to the written and spoken word, including the use of chairperson; of lung disease; in East Haddam, Connecticut...
...tobacco company. A former Brown & Williamson executive turned whistle-blower. The life of Victor Crawford, a former tobacco lobbyist, came to an end from cancer of the throat after he used his final years valiantly lecturing about the evils of smoking. Science proved the direct link between smoking and lung cancer. The end result of such events was that smoking increased among children and young adults...
...unless the guy is the President and the date is with History. And so she was pleased last Tuesday when the phone rang and it was Clinton on the line. They talked for a while. He asked about the health of her friend Czech President Vaclav Havel, who has lung cancer. Clinton mused about the messy U.S. effort to unseat Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Then there came a pregnant pause. And then he thanked her and hung...
AILING. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, chain-smoking playwright-President of the Czech Republic; with pneumonia; following surgery to remove a malignant tumor and half of his right lung; in Prague. Doctors said Havel's prognosis was good, but late in the week, they performed a tracheotomy to relieve breathing problems. Havel's wife Olga, recipient of a famous series of his letters under the communists, died of cancer in January...