Word: lungfuls
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...industry grows, hot lines are catering to increasingly specific audiences. Anglers in Ohio can call the 976-FISH line to find out what's biting. Superstitious residents of New York City can ring up the 976-TARO (short for tarot) to hear their fortunes, while nonsmokers can call 540- LUNG to find out about the latest tobacco-industry liability cases. Customers with Touch-Tone phones can program a wake-up service in which the customer will be greeted by a sultry recorded voice ("Time to wake up, tiger...
...artery supplying blood to the brain; the artery was already leaking. Biden was rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for eight hours of cranial surgery, which many patients do not survive. Lying completely still in intensive care afterward led to the development of a blood clot on his lung, which required an operation to implant a filter in a vein. In May he was back on the operating table, for surgery on a second aneurysm. It was a hellish time, but he is completely recovered. "The good news is that I can do anything I did before...
...symptoms can frequently be ambiguous, tuberculosis is endemic in South Africa. Mandela might have inhaled the TB bacillus in prison and developed the disease immediately, though it is more likely to have lain quiescent in his body for years. Doctors drained three liters of fluid from around his left lung and prescribed antibiotics. Mandela, hospital officials say, is now "up and about and improving steadily," with the encouraging prognosis of full recovery...
...Rose Cipollone had the upper lobe of her lung cut out. She still continued to smoke. Doesn't that suggest some kind of a dependence...
...CARTON. She did make the concession of switching in 1955 from Chesterfield straights to L&M filters, which were advertised at the time as "just what the doctor ordered." But Cipollone kept on smoking even after developing a malignant tumor that forced surgeons to remove part of her right lung in 1981. She continued sneaking puffs after the entire lung was taken out in 1982, and finally quit about a year before her death from cancer...