Word: lungful
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...Wagnerian mood We're forced to strain a lung And serve the ponderous musical food Of Götterddmmerung...
...brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium of the '80s used to permit patrons to kiss: it proved to be her own bosom, painted with a cherubic visage...
...would remember the boisterous, brawling affairs that used to be & part of every campaign. Strippers, brass bands, torchlight parades, and riots were common occurrences, and a candidate without a leather lung was lost before...
...California's Governor Earl Warren. Nina ("Honey Bear"), 17, had had a bout with polio, but her doctor predicted that she would be hale & hearty after a year and a half of treatment. Dorothy, 19, faced a week in bed after cracking some ribs and puncturing a lung in an auto accident...
...United States Public Health Service has granted $5,417 to the University for research on lung cancer. Dr. Leonid S. Snegireff, associate professor of Cancer Control, will use the grant for studying cancer patients in Massachusetts hospitals as to conditions which lead up to the disease...