Word: breath
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...psychological rather than physical. Scholander's experiments proved this. A loud, sharp noise produces the same heart-slowing effect on a seal at the edge of a tank; a seal swimming free, close to the surface, aware that it can raise its head to take a breath any time it chooses, does not slow down its heart...
What happens in man, Dr. Scholander told the American Philosophical Society last month, is much the same as what happens in the seal, though less pronounced. The human volunteer who holds his breath while his mouth is under water reacts in much the same way as a seal trained to perform a symbolic dive by keeping its snout submerged in a tub. In both, the heartbeat is slowed. More significant, the flow of blood through flippers or feet is sharply reduced. So is the flow of blood through intestines and kidneys-everywhere except in the brain, lungs and heart. Even...
...President Kennedy, popularity was the breath of life-and now he was breathing of it deeply. Texas was supposed to be a hostile political land, but for 23 hours he had been acclaimed there. Conservative Dallas was supposed to be downright dangerous, but he had just come from a warm airport welcome and along much of his motorcade route in the downtown district he had basked in waves of applause from crowds lined ten and twelve deep. What was about to happen must have been the farthest thing from his mind...
...long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hours of maximum danger," he said, as his breath steamed in the cold air. "I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people, or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it-and the glow from that fire can truly light the world...
Lila Mauldin, 26, Albuquerque housewife and mother of three, was always short of breath; she got tired in no time. Diagnosis of her trouble was easy enough, and last spring she went to Denver's National Jewish Hospital for an operation to correct mitral stenosis -a narrowing of the valve inside her heart, between its upper and lower left chambers. Without such an operation, Mrs. Mauldin was not likely to live long. But the N.J.H. surgeons found they could not operate because Patient Mauldin would need transfusions during surgery, and she had rare, unmatchable blood: type A (common...