Word: lungfuls
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While Jonas turned in a solid performance for the Crimson, making 37 saves, Lombard struggled in his first game back from a punctured lung and cracked rib. The Yale netminder allowed five goals despite facing only 26 shots...
...lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery savages the memory (something to do with oxygen deprivation while on the heart-lung machine). My memory was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason, I wanted to retrieve the name of... you know, the "Gonzo journalist" of "Fear and Loathing" fame... Rolling Stone... you know... but the once perfectly familiar words...
Yale's dearth of front lines combined with what Yale coach Tim Taylor called a "no-name defense" in the preseason and a big question mark between the pipes with netminder Dan Lombard out with a punctured lung, will leave the squad very vulnerable to a rejuvenated Crimson offense...
Needing two points to secure home ice, the Crimson offense took advantage of the absence of Yale junior goaltender Dan Lombard, who missed the game due to a punctured lung...
...Practitioners often begin, for example, by uttering a generality: "I sense an older father figure here," eliciting a response that leads him to the next question. "I'm getting that his death resulted from a problem in his chest" is a statistically sound guess that could cover everything from lung cancer and emphysema to a heart attack. Should the subject answer no, the cold reader will often say, "Well, we'll get back to that," and quickly change tack. It's a sophisticated form of the game Twenty Questions, during which the subject, anxious to hear from the dead, seldom...