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Word: lungs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maiden test flight; within an hour an engine conked out. The plane crashed, sheared the roof off one house, ricocheted a block further and piled into a $100,000 mansion, which burned to the ground; Hughes landed in a Beverly Hills hospital with a fractured skull, a collapsed lung, a better-than-even chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...price for peace by demanding that the Communists withdraw from areas they had long controlled in North China, even his closest advisers felt he had decided on war. When he turned around and extended the two-week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Edge of the Cliff | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Maharaja of Indore, 37, who arrived in Boston in bad shape two months ago, was in good shape after a lung operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

General George Marshall's sharp eye saw a chance for Chinese peace. Chiang Kai-shek was willing to halt his armies in Manchuria for seven days; Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai wanted a one-month armistice. Marshall asked shrewd Dr. Lo Lung-chi, head of the pink-tinged Democratic League, to help him work out a compromise. Together they led the rival leaders to a middle ground: a 15-day truce in Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Breathing Spell | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...hospital in Allentown, Pa., where she was taken, the immediate problem was feeding the mother and her unborn child. The delivery was still six months away, and natural forces would come into play at the right time. Many paralytics and iron-lung mothers have given birth to normal babies; their condition is somewhat similar to that induced by the pain-killing caudal anesthesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth of a Baby | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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