Word: cpr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer heat and a lack of adult supervision are blamed for the rash of accidents. Two brothers, ages 2 and 3, drowned within four minutes when their mother went to answer the telephone. More than 8,000 people showed up recently for a free course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, and requests for pool-fencing estimates have tripled. But authorities stress that parental vigilance is the key to preventing these tragedies. "If you can't answer the doorbell without taking your eyes off the kids," warns Stephen Jensen, assistant to the Phoenix fire chief, "don't answer the door...
...opposition, of course, has come up with its own rather peculiar interpretations. Occasionally, the sponsor of the referendum, the Coalition for Palestinian Rights (CPR), has come under attack as having "a hidden agenda." Despite the referendum's clear call for "peace for all states in the region, including Israel," many still assert that the CPR, which incidentally includes both Jewish and Arab Americans, is secretly seeking the total destruction of Israel. As further evidence of our alleged bias against Israel, the opposition points out that the referendum does not call on the U.S. government to apply pressure on the Palestinians...
...Crimson cagers have revived from the dead, and the doctor who performed the CPR is Coach Kathy Delaney Smith. In the last three years, her team has won 54 of its 78 games and its premiere Ivy League titles...
...This gives us a little bit of life, almost like CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation]," Kite said...
Movies and colorful maps, exhibits and concrete experiments, are like CPR for the senses. Without them, nothing one does with the eyes and hands involves the brain. Education should bring the physical and the mental together. Otherwise the physical becomes something separate, sensory but senseless. We all recognize the dangers mindless physicality: body worship, the descent from the erotic to the obscene. But the mind, separated from the body, also diminishes; intellectualism blurs into asceticism. The isolation of senses from thoughts is as dehumanizing in philosophy as in pornography...