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Word: lunging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was a large laceration of his scalp and injury to his brain," reported Surgeon James C. Drye of Louisville. "His right lung was torn and there was a fair amount of blood in his chest. His spleen was ruptured and bleeding. There were about three quarts of blood in his abdomen. His left leg was almost amputated. His pelvis was fractured. He was not hit by an artillery shell in Viet Nam, as one might think from the extent of his injuries. He was wounded while riding a motorbike on the streets of our community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidents: Mayhem on Motorcycles | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...jury was not permitted to assume that brain damage resulted from the repressed birth, and medical testimony was essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example: A dies from the simultaneous effects of a shooting by B and a stabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torts: Conundrums of Causation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Belle Wringer | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Massive Damage. Post-mortems revealed that the lungs of the nonsmokers were entirely healthy. Damage to the smokers' lungs was massive. The lung tissue of the last two to die spontaneously was so completely destroyed that doctors had difficulty evaluating what had happened. In the others, reported Dr. Auerbach, the changes in the lungs were remarkably similar to the effects of emphysema in man. The experiment had not continued long enough to see whether cancer would develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Dogs, Death & Smoking | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...important, that humans smoke differently. They rarely inhale five times in a row, and they normally do not smoke butts down to less than a quarter of an inch, as the dogs did. Nonetheless, the dead beagles provided the first controlled experimental evidence of the relationship of cigarettes to lung damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Dogs, Death & Smoking | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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