Word: lungingly
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...high-powered cars are far more polluting than prewar models. Even worse, pollutants can be synergistic. "If the levels of sulfur dioxide and a carcinogen [cancer producing substance] in polluted air are both doubled," Commoner explains, "the resulting hazard is much more than doubled, because sulfur dioxide inhibits the lung's self-protective mechanism and makes it more susceptible to the carcinogen...
Every occupation has its hazards. Miners are prone to anthracosis or "black lung," divers to the bends and tennis players to bursitis. According to Dr. Frank Gross of the U.S. Public Health Service, who describes his findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, many physicians suffer from a condition to be known henceforth as the Emperor's Clothes Syndrome...
...court seeking to force a rerun of the 1969 election on grounds that it was conducted illegally. Boyle is under indictment by the Justice Department, charged with illegally using union funds for political contributions. To add to Boyle's problems, another bloc called the Black Lung Association has threatened wildcat strikes if he does not raise his wage-and-benefit demands even further...
...that these are merely tactics of self-defense in a world ruled by criminals far worse than he. For example: Claud Moggerhanger, a vice lord who employs Michael as his chauffeur, and Jack Leningrad, who recruits Michael to the gold-smuggling ring that he operates from inside his iron lung. Of him Moggerhanger remarks, "I'll smash his lung to pieces and watch him die like a fish on his own floor...
...Stonehenge in a torrential downpour pursuing a brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating it with Moggerhanger's daughter in the lavatory of an airliner high over France. As for that iron lung, it turns out to be fake...