Word: lunging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within a few months his-brother was struck down by an incurable nervous disease, his mother died, his father went bankrupt, and Christian had to go south to recover from a lung ailment...
Shocking Pink. North Carolina-born Mac Heath served as a paratroop flight surgeon in World War II, took a residency in obstetrics at Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital after he came home. Later, Heath heard that an aging doctor in the San Juan Islands was dying of lung cancer, moved to Friday Harbor in 1949 and examined his first patients in the back seat of a car while waiting for his office equipment to arrive...
...predigested milk protein, plus fruits and vegetables,
arrested the disease.
Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later...
Died. Lord Vansittart, 75, versatile, vituperative onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, poet, playwright and polemical pamphleteer, longtime foe of German aggression; of lung congestion; in Denham, England. Vansittart established himself as a young-man-about-letters by concocting a French comedy (Les Pariahs) at 21, getting it produced successfully in Paris; as head of the British Foreign Office, attacked Naziism, got kicked upstairs (to the sinecure of chief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Secretary) by appeasement-minded Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Vansittart admitted he was anti-German ("Germans have killed, tortured, starved, plundered...