Word: gating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of explanation and his claims of success hardly satisfy the scientifically minded. Dr. Pang Man, director of research at the Northville (Mich.) State Hospital and a participant in the Einstein operation, subscribes to the neurological approach put forward by Professor Ronald Melzack of McGill University. Called the "gate control theory" of pain, it holds that certain nerve cells in the spinal cord can either inhibit or intensify the flow of pain impulses to the brain. If the theory is correct, implantation of acupuncture needles could prevent pain in two ways: first, by blocking the transmission of pain sensations from...
Then, out of the early morning fog came the ground assault. Headlights ablaze, 14 huge T-54 tanks growled through one gate, and eight more rolled through another. When the North Vietnamese infantrymen followed five minutes later, the South Vietnamese were already in full flight. One group ran straight through their own minefield. Others grabbed at the skids of a helicopter that came to pick up the U.S. advisers; the overloaded chopper staggered to nearby Dak To, where it was forced to set down. (Six of the advisers and four crewmen died when another chopper that had come to pick...
...PARAMOUNT STUDIO has a marvelous main gate, imposing and familiar: you've seen it in dozens of movies about the movies. But behind the ornate baroque swirls of its iron facade lies a studio much like any other. Anonymous administration buildings, tacky writers's bungalows, and the looming shapes of the sound stages, lofty and featureless as airplane hangars, all stand on the sandy lot divided by wide dusty roads, baking silently in the heat. There is something hallucinatory about those roads, white and glaring, always seen through a quivering haze of dust that hangs hesitantly...
...once occupied by the Dowager Empress Tsu Hsi during the Ching Dynasty, she strolled through such exotic edifices as the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, the Hall of Happiness in Longevity, the Hall of Dispelling the Clouds and the Pavilion of the Fragrance of Buddha. Going through the Gate of Longevity and Good Will, she remarked, "That's prophetic." Staring up at a pagoda perched on a hilltop, she asked about climbing up to have a closer look and was told that the trail was too hazardous. "I'm game," she said, but her hosts quickly hurried...
...does his writing in a bomb shelter in New Hampshire, and he hasn't produced anything readable in thirteen years. We just don't have writers anymore who can lead public lives and still recall those ancient sages who, when an enemy took the town, walked out of the gate empty handed, without a care for the morrow, (The Hype Machine could fix their wagon...