Word: lunging
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...President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung cancer; in the Bronx...
Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period. In the interim he has bought about 2,400 objects for his collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog he gave the late Queen Louise is a Pekinese named Eisei, and she laps water from a modern Scandinavian imitation of an ancient Chinese stoneware bowl placed on a square of Chinese carpet in the palace's museum room...
Transsexuals have so far been a badly neglected group of patients, "stepchildren of medicine," suffering intensely under their undeserved misfortune. Until psychiatry finds a cure for them, surgery is their only life-saving hope, just as it is for the patient with lung cancer...
Belated Sweep. Temperatures climbed -Manhattan experienced a record 64° -as the bowl of stagnant air roofed the region. A scattering of New York hospitals reported an increase in lung-ailment complaints. Finally, with weather forecasts indicating no relief, officials called a first-stage smog alert* in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut...
...first sign of lung cancer came this summer, when Ohiri collapsed while playing tennis at the Harvard Business School...