Word: lungingly
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...powder is considered by most parents to be safe. That assumption is not necessarily true. There have been scattered incidents in the U.S. of severe skin rashes and even poisoning from powder containing dangerous ingredients. Last year doctors warned that a high asbestos content in talc could lead to lung cancer. French medical authorities in the 1950s blamed a talc accidentally laced with arsenic for killing 69 infants. Last week the French government indicted a talcum powder for the recent deaths of 28 babies. The suspected ingredient: hexachlorophene, an antibacterial agent that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found...
...contagious. Their shouts of "We want Pat" kept a pleased Pat Nixon from acknowledging an overblown James Stewart-narrated tribute for twelve minutes. They repeatedly interrupted Barry Goldwater and waved such age-bridging signs as RON BABY, WE LOVE YOU at Ronald Reagan. They released even more of their lung power every time their unlikely hero, Richard Nixon, appeared in public. "Nixon now, more than ever! Nixon now, more than ever!" went...
...ceiling. "The last shot was fatal," said Hassan-though he may not have told the whole story. Paris' Le Nouvel Observateur reported that those who saw Oufkir's body the next morning said that one bullet had hit him in the stomach, another near the lung, a third in the right arm, and a fourth in the back of his neck emerging through his left eye-too many wounds for a suicide...
...week the butler found her third husband, an electrical contractor named Barnett Garrison, lying in a pool of blood outside Candy's Houston mansion. He had fallen off the third-floor roof some time during the night. With brain damage, a broken hip, broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Garrison was in no condition to explain what he was doing on the roof in the wee hours with a pistol, ammunition and over a thousand dollars in his pocket. Neither was Candy. She was locked up in her bedroom, having hysterics. Police said it was apparently all an accident...
Died. Max Theiler, 73, South African-born virologist who as a researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation won the 1951 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his success in developing a vaccine against yellow fever; of lung cancer; in New Haven, Conn...