Word: lunging
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...Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...floor window of his hotel room, several days after a collapse brought on by high blood pressure and heart trouble; in Washington's Hotel Driscoll at the foot of Capitol Hill. Died. Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar. 63, last Premier of Spain (February-April 1931) under the Monarchy; of lung trouble, uremia and complications; in Madrid...
Like the African lung fish, the climbing perch is a specialist. Living in hot, often foul, water holes, it has developed a sort of auxiliary "lung" (labyrinth) that enables it to utilize atmospheric air instead of the oxygen in the water, which is too low under such conditions to sustain piscatorial life...
Biocracy likens the human body to the economic system of the world, bringing into account the manner in which the body throws away its waste products, and the way in which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...
...early 1920's War-Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...