Word: awakenning
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...difficulty arises in the fine line that separates anesthesia from convulsions," says Lieut. Colonel John Moncrief, who monitored the project. The Mississippi machine, although still experimental, looks promising: it puts the patient to sleep, keeps him under as long as the current remains constant, permits him to awaken within 60 seconds after the juice is turned off. It uses 22-30 volts, 50 milliamperes, and a frequency that is brought up from 0 to 700 cycles to put the patient under. It causes some spasms, which drugs easily stop, but produces no convulsions, loss of memory or even headache...
...spiritual revival" is sweeping through Dunster House, according to Morris H. Susman '62, leader of a campaign to awaken the Funsters' House spirit...
...next few weeks, after a well-earned rest, Kennedy must weigh seriously the course his Administration will take in putting into effect the promises of the Democratic platform. He must draft an inaugural address, designed not to away an electorate, but to awaken the American people to the dangers, sacrifices and responsibilities that the next decade will present...
...need a man in the '60s who can awaken America and snap us out of our complacency. Nixon couldn't wake a light sleeper...
...White's thesis that we had better have all the panoply of arms, atomic and otherwise, rather than no arms at all is intriguing. Certainly if we were to awaken one morning to an unarmed world we'd probably have that walking-down-Hollywood-Boulevard-in-the-altogether feeling. However, Mr. White is, I think, oversimplifying. The very fact that we are in the atomic age defeats his argument. As more and more nations acquire the know-how and or the weapons themselves, the logarithm of danger will increase. We cannot be sure even today that "some...