Word: breathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plus-eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne...
...lightning. Boy, do I remember that lightning. I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it. I remember falling through hail, and that worried me; I was afraid the hail would tear the chute. Sometimes I was falling through heavy water-I'd take a breath and breathe in a mouthful of water. Sometimes I had the sensation I was looping the chute. I was blown up and down as much as 6,000 feet at a time. It went on for a long time, like being on a very fast elevator, with strong blasts of compressed air hitting...
...school he was already writing the page-long sentences that make even non-asthmatics gasp for breath. A schoolfellow took him to a brothel, but Proust was appalled; the madam looked like a murderess. At any rate, he was destined for darker vices...
...patient sits alone in a sterile-looking cubicle, electrodes taped to his chest and extremities, and hunches over a series of buttons on a metal console. He presses a button. On a viewing screen, up pops a question, such as "Do you suffer from shortness of breath?" The patient thinks he does, so he presses another button marked "Yes." The machine records this, and his yes or no answers to a hundred other questions. From the electrodes, a polygraph ("lie detector") notes which questions pack a heavy emotional charge for him. The machine produces a printed and punched, easy...
...could stop his heartbeat. Although he had done it in the past, Hansen feared that he might not be able to "will" his heart back to working. He turned on an electrocardiograph, then, "simply by allowing everything to stop," silenced his heartbeat for five seconds. After a deep breath, he was back to normal. Last week, writing in California Medicine, Dr. Charles M. McClure of Lindsay, Calif, confirmed Hansen's ability to stop his heart voluntarily, without any physical maneuvers: "The case ... is unusual, perhaps unique...