Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have taken a new turn, it is very likely that Reid's right hand will soon be busier than ever. Since last spring's sweeping strikes in the mines of the north, the activities of the anti-Franquistas has increased markedly. The success of those work stoppages acted like adrenalin on the groups opposing the regime, which had passed a number of years in a wilderness of frustrated possibilities. Representing all conceivable shades of the political spectrum, they have once again begun to consider practical programs aimed at the overthrow or attenuation of the Franco government...
...best peak ever," he says, "but I hope to keep on building. I'm not restricted to being a follower or a leader. I can do a fast early pace. I can maintain sustained drive well. I have instantaneous acceleration. But I need an adrenalin shock on the last lap-somebody to make the adrenalin come." The man Beatty hopes will provide the shock he needs to smash Peter Snell's world record: Snell himself. "If I met Snell right now," he says, "I think it would be a very good race. I'm mentally ready...
...went on to define a CD expenditure or 5 billion dollars as the point be which CD becomes the adrenalin of production. Below this level, , Kahn considered extensive construction "a simple measure can make a tremendous difference people outside target areas...
...Scottish hospital moaning: "The end is near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen's Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis...
Only fortnight ago Dr. J. Harold Burn of Oxford suggested that the lift usually associated with smoking may be caused by an adrenalin-related hormone called nore-pinephrine?the same hormone that raises the hair on the tail of a scared cat. But most scientists agree that smoking becomes a habit because of emotional compulsions rather than any physical need...