Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonest form of heart attack is a coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in an artery supplying the heart muscle checks the blood flow and starves the muscle. To overcome this handicap, the heart must labor excessively; like a car on a steep grade in high gear, it pings alarmingly and may stall. A noted Canadian psychiatrist suggested last week that the basic cause of the trouble may be found, not where doctors have been looking, in the patient's physical exertions or his arteries, but in his emotional problems...
...matches, Japan's Ichiya Kumagae sat in the stands at Forest Hills and excitedly watched his countryman, Zenzo Shimizu, whip Tilden in the first two sets 7-5, 6-4. Shimizu got within two points of match in the third set. Then Tilden shifted out of second gear. Playing faultlessly, he got off smashes, drop shots, over-spins, undercuts, volleys and cannonball serves the like of which the Japanese had never seen. He pulled out the third set, 7-5, romped through the next two, 6-2, 6-1. The Japanese went home without the cup, beaten five matches...
...congestive heart failure. Brooklyn's William Dock argued that since many such patients are going to have to live with their disease for ten to 15 years, they should be started promptly on a simple diet which a housewife can handle without a hospital's fancy kitchen gear, and they should be given prescriptions for simple, greenleaf digitalis instead of more expensive proprietary drugs. "In fact," summed up Dr. Dock, "the main faults in the treatment of these patients are overtreatment and overprescription...
With all their electronic cunning, scientists are steadily weeding out possibilities for human error. In the process, they have packed the airplane with a hefty load of gear. Well-equipped modern airliners are likely to carry both low-and very-high-frequency communication sets, a couple of low-frequency radio compasses, a radio altimeter, perhaps even an airborne radar...
...established adventures have their protocol, their professional techniques. Mountain climbers, big-game hunters and explorers nowadays set out only after supplying themselves with the most up-to-date maps, guides and gear. But the adventure of No Picnic on Mount Kenya was strictly amateur. It did not seek to prove any theories about man or the universe; it was merely a gesture of private spunk...