Word: lungful
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...Carlos Blanco Soler denounced the whole scandal as a frivolous fraud. Since December, he said, he and two fellow scholars had been examining the Duchess' mummified body. Their verdict was death from natural causes-meningeal encephalitis, aggravated by tuberculosis, as evidenced by a tubercular lesion in the right lung and a spinal curvature. The experts reported no traces of poison...
General George Marshall, back in his Chungking mediation job, wanted to find out the price for which the newly rampaging Chinese Communists would settle. He asked Lo Lung-chi, head of the pinko Democratic League, to find out. Lo had a talk with Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, then Lo spilled enough beans to make the Chinese situation clearer than it has been for many a week...
...deemed a "classic" by Minister Sir Guy Nott-Bower, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
More hard-rock miners die every year from silicosis than from cave-ins. Silicosis is a degeneration of the lung tissue caused by microscopic rock dust particles...
Within the box raged a miniature storm of aluminum powder, churned by compressed air. With each breath the miners inhaled about five million tiny aluminum particles. The doctors' theory: aluminum powder forms a coating around silica powder in the air sacs, prevents formation of lung-eating silicic acid...