Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed in their chests...
Died. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried...
Died. Elizabeth Bowen, 73, Irish novelist whose sensitive tales of young girls awakening to the reality of adulthood (The Death of the Heart, The House in Paris) earned her comparison with Virginia Woolf and Willa Gather; of lung cancer; in London. Descended from Irish gentry dating back to the age of Cromwell, Bowen moved to England as a child, briefly studied art, then found her forte during the '20s as a writer. Among her best books was The Heat of the Day, an account of life in London during World...
...would never harm a woman) customarily suffer alone, in traps set by a villain far offstage. In addition, permanent personal affliction usually lurks somewhere. The hero of For Kicks has a crippled hand. Forfeit-one of Francis' stronger plots-is marred by a wife in an iron lung whose patience rivals Penelope's. In the new book, the hero has a damaged child-big brother dropped her on her head, poor little nipper-but fortunately she is a continent away from most of the action...
After the election, Miller made efforts to compensate victims of black lung disease and was, he said, "treated like dirt" by union officials. Suits filed by his group led to a new federally-supervised election, in which he was elected...