Word: lungingly
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Whether or not Munoz accidentally bumped into the truck will probably never be known. Brannan poked his revolver through a porthole, the weapon discharged, and the bullet pierced Munoz's lung. The boy ran into the store, crying, "I've been shot from the truck," and collapsed. Brannan told his boss, President Robert Wilson of the Armored Express Corp., that he and his partner were being harassed by several teenagers, that he stuck the revolver through the porthole to warn them off, and that the gun fired accidentally. Munoz died two days later, a casualty of fear...
...resulting publicity helped contribute to Boyle's downfall. From a post-World War I membership of more than 600,000, the U.M.W has dropped to 180,000 members; critics have charged that the union has lagged on safety legislation and failed to push vigorously for black-lung benefits for disabled miners. Autocratic, out of touch, Boyle was left with little defense to offer those critics -or his federal prosecutors...
Died. The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...
...National Heart and Lung Institute announced Thursday the first use of nuclear energy to power an artificial heart pump in a living animal...
...rich complexity of the lives of those often viewed in one-dimensional, socially autistic terms unravels, it is sometimes impossible to keep from being profoundly moved. Listen as Sally, a ten year-old mountain girl, talks about her uncle back in Kentucky who has the dreaded "black lung" disease coal miners are prone to contract: "I don't think I'll ever live in a mansion, no. It doesn't seem fair that only a few people have houses like that, big ones with a garden all around. If we had a garden, we could play on the grass...