Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman set up procedures in 1952 to examine the qualifications of nominees, Senators were accustomed to naming friends for bench vacancies and getting near-automatic presidential approval. Some Senate veterans have still to hear the new message, and, more than any other factor, senatorial balkiness has held up the flow of nominations. In Texas, Senator Ralph Yarborough and Vice President Lyndon Johnson quarrel now over every available patronage plum; Justice hopes to resolve a potentially bitter fight by selecting Yarborough-approved candidates for two unfilled posts in Texas' southern and western districts, Johnson men for two available judgeships...
...critical aspect of this process is to avoid flooding the brain with oxygen. If resuscitation is begun within six minutes, so that oxygenated blood resumes its flow to the brain, the switchover from anaerobic glycolysis will nevertheless be gradual and must not be rushed, said Dr. Gaievskaya. Extra oxygen given too soon, she warned, may damage the brain as surely as the lack of oxygen ultimately does in normal death...
Last week a curious and serious malady was affecting Communist East Germany and reaching almost epidemic proportions. The name of the disease was Torschlusspanik, which literally means "fear of gate closing." Everything East German leaders did to shut off the flow of refugees to the West seemed, instead, to spur it on. The day that Deputy Premier Willi Stoph announced new secret measures to halt the refugees-ostensibly at the urging of "delegations of workers"-1.532 East Germans beat it over the border and checked into the big Marienfelde refugee center in West Berlin...
...most deadly accidents that can befall the human circulatory system-as likely to kill quickly as a stroke or a heart attack-has no everyday English name. It is pulmonary embolism, in which the flow of used blood is blocked, nearly always by clots, in the pulmonary artery leading from the heart's lower right chamber to the lungs (see diagram). Medicine and surgery have been helpless to deal with severe cases of pulmonary embolism. Now a team of Houston doctors suggests that if victims can be operated upon promptly, a number may be saved with...
This took 15 minutes-more than four times as long as the body's blood flow can be safely stopped without a heart-lung machine. Then Dr. Cooley stitched up the artery and let normal blood flow resume. Immediately, the patient's blood pressure was a healthy 120 over 70. To protect her against the risk of renewed clotting, the great vein in her lower right flank was tied off. She went home in two weeks, and has remained well for months...