Word: lungfuls
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...code of a Gordon Liddy. But what are most of us to make of a time when war required no explanations or apologies, when generals fought in the middle of their troops, and when it was almost reasonable for a leader, say Alexander, to pluck a spear from his lung so that he could seize more land than he could possibly govern...
...guard Kevin Czinger. He pronounces his name "Zinger," and if they listed it in Roget's, you would find it next to "tough." It seems that nothing--not a badly sprained ankle suffered in Yale's 35-7 humiliation of Dartmouth, not a sinus infection that spread into his lung before Yale clobbered Princeton (he played anyway), not his opponents' constant tendency to double-team him--can stop Kevin Czinger...
...Israeli War of Independence, Gazit served as chief intelligence officer for a brigade and then commanded his own company. But a serious gunshot wound he received while fighting in Jerusalem ended his military career and resulted in the loss of a lung. The injury, he says, "gave me further impetus to go on in government...
...with his constant questioning. There were logistical problems. A severe snowstorm hit Death Valley just before the Cosmos team was scheduled to re-enact a Viking landing. A few miles away, the U.S. Air Force was conducting bomb runs. In addition, word came that Sagan's father had developed lung cancer. Over the ten months of illness that led up to his father's death, Carl frequently had to be away from the filming for days at a time...
...breakthroughs. The first, in 1977, was the production of a brain hormone called somatostatin, which may be used to treat certain hormonal disorders. In 1979 the company developed thymosin alpha1, which is now being tested by the National Cancer Institute for possible treatment of certain types of brain and lung cancer. Genentech's gross revenues have risen from $856,335 in 1978 to $3.5 million for the first half of this year...