Word: bronchially
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...concern, suddenly took a turn for the worse last week and thus became one more liability for a regime already afflicted with political terrorism and a limping economy. The caudillo was bedridden in his suburban Buenos Aires residence with what was variously described as either the recurrence of a bronchial condition or a mild heart attack. What worried nervous Argentines was that his illness was serious enough to require his wife Isabelita, the Vice President and a former cabaret dancer, to preside over last week's Cabinet meetings...
...brisk and cheerful. Her "different way of seeing things now" did not represent a rallying-cry to the oppressed, to the long-suffering victims of sexual exploitation and abandonment, but an elementary lesson in power politics: meet your favorite heroine and watch her gain power through victimization. From the bronchial death-throes of Clarissa Harlowe to Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, "a pre-vision of a Fitzgerald flapper," women in fiction seem to have mastered (or mistressed) the fine art of psychological castration...
Though the patient survived longer than the other two heart-lung recipients had, it was a desperate struggle almost from the beginning. Three days after surgery, Herbert began to have difficulty breathing, and doctors opened his windpipe and inserted a tube to better ventilate his lungs. Later a bronchial leak required a second postoperative repair job. For several days afterward, Herbert appeared to be making progress. But on Aug. 13, his condition began to deteriorate despite further efforts to save...
...production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances first discovered in the 1930s. Although their exact role is still incompletely understood, prostaglandins occur in semen, menstrual fluid and a wide variety of human tissues. They are known to be involved with the functions of such diverse structures as the heart, bronchial tubes, blood vessels and stomach...
What followed, however, was altogether too much. Berger's friends were told to leave the country. His wife died in a hospital, after surgery, of bronchial pneumonia leading to cardiac collapse. She had been under guard for nine weeks, although no charges were brought against her, and Berger suspects that better medical attention might have saved her. Last week, after his own long incarceration without bail, Berger was acquitted of the charge of possession of the drug because there was no evidence that it belonged to him. He was also cleared of having allowed his villa "Casa Degli Angeli...