Word: flutter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appreciate them because he was not brought up with her advantages. Gradually it dawns on Miranda that Clegg is a modern version of Caliban-"anti-life, antiart, anti-everything." And she is his possession: "I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, always the same, always beautiful. My being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods was becoming a nuisance...
More than any other astronaut, Cooper displayed his bitterness at being passed over on earlier space flights. Yet when NASA doctors grounded Astronaut Donald Slayton because of a heart flutter, Cooper threatened to quit the program. After the fifth U.S. man-in-space flight, a superb six-orbit job by Wally Schirra, there were reports that last week's flight would be flown by Alan Shepard. Schirra, a close friend of Cooper's, put an end to that: he threatened to raise a public ruckus if Cooper were bypassed...
...while he ponders, weak and weary, the hero (Vincent Price) of this picture hears a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door. "Surely," says he, "surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...
...crises in affairs of the heart are more dreaded by physician, surgeon and patient alike than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching...
Cooper nearly lost his chance to go into orbit when he became enraged at the decision last year to ground Astronaut Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton because of a reported heart flutter. Cooper offended high NASA officials by vehemently protesting the decision, threatened to quit if Slayton were not reinstated. He was persuaded not to 'bail out of the program by Astronaut Walter Schirra, who made the near-perfect six-orbit flight in October...