Word: lungfuls
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...sneak a letter home saying: "They are doing everything to hasten my death." The treatment of Galanskov has aroused anxiety over the condition of other sick political prisoners, such as former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 66, a war invalid, and Writer Vladimir Bukovsky, 30, who suffers from a lung disease...
...campaign has been turbulent. A third-generation miner who speaks in a soft, hoarse voice and suffers from the dreaded "black lung" disease of the pits, Candidate Miller, 50, carries a big stick-specifically, a shotgun beneath the seat of his car. He never hits the campaign trail without an armed bodyguard, while he ventures into pro-Boyle precincts that Yablonski stayed away from. He means to come back alive, which is why he keeps his schedule a secret. "They are not going to know where I'll be," Miller says, "and I won't be where they...
...Carmen must certainly rank as one of the most erotic of versions. In one scene of the opera, Carmen does a striptease, then lolls on a bed in her underwear, grabbing at Don José. Later the couple fall into bed and, through some miraculous exercise of lung power, manage to sing their love duet while they are passionately embracing...
Based on a study of white patients diagnosed between 1940 and 1969 in 100 hospitals throughout the country, the 217-page report contains bad news for victims of lung and pancreatic tumors. Lung cancer remains the most common type of the disease among men; the survival rate is poor and the incidence of the ailment is increasing. Life expectancy for patients with pancreatic cancers has shown almost no improvement, and this kind of tumor is becoming more common...
Picking up speed, Wottle passed two flying Kenyans on the outside and took aim on Arzhanov. With one last lung-devouring spurt, he lunged for the finish line and edged the falling Russian by the length of his lucky cap (which he forgot to remove during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner). Growled Bowerman, who once withdrew a runner's scholarship because the boy got engaged: "Well, he sure shot one theory of mine to hell...