Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during the war, he hasn't laid a finger on a gun for the past two years...
...which volunteers could be subjected to forces inducing anger and fear. The Columbus team decided to do it under hypnosis. They got nine volunteers, eight of them graduate students at Ohio State and one a hospital patient. Each one had to have a plastic tube threaded through an arm vein into the heart, and a needle positioned inside an artery in the arm. In a half-dark, quiet room, the subjects were hypnotized. For ten to 15 minutes at a time, they were given suggestions calculated to make them angry or fearful. They had 45 minutes in which to relax...
Doctors have long been as puzzled as their patients have been alarmed when some unaccustomed exercise causes not only numbness in an arm but faintness and even temporary blindness. Now artery researchers at West Virginia University School of Medicine have an explanation for what investigators call "the subclavian-steal syndrome...
...older people who have arteriosclerosis, Dr. Marshall explained, there may be a clot in, say, the left subclavian artery. Then the blood pressure beyond the clot, and in the left arm, falls below normal, lower than the pressure in the right ascending vertebral artery. This sets up the steal. If the left arm demands extra blood because of unwonted exercise, it gets some by drawing it in a reverse flow down the left vertebral artery, stealing it from the right vertebral artery at their junction just below the brain...
...Frank," as nearly everyone ends up calling him, had been literally raring to get about the business of hand shaking and arm twisting that is a candidate's daily fare...