Word: heartbeating
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...Sergeant Kerr chain-smoked and watched nervously on a TV set in the hospital basement, the cameras showed his wife Lillian on the operating table, virtually obscured by doctors and nurses in close-order formation. There was a short explanation of what was going to happen and the fetal heartbeat pounded over the air. Then the cameras switched to the hospital's up-to-the-minute facilities for care of premature babies. Only the TV crew and newsmen saw the actual incision in Mrs. Kerr's abdomen and the quick, dramatic extraction of the full-term baby...
...very short time, the machine can step up a heartbeat slowed to a dangerous 25 counts per minute to its normal 90. The current running through the resistant thick outer skin causes only a mild twitching of the chest, but no pain or burning...
Calling Nixon a "somewhat more sophisticated version of Joe McCarthy," he said, "the idea that only one heartbeat stands between Richard Nixon and the Presidency, gives me the horrors...
...White began to study the hearts of mammals larger than man. As medical examiner for Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, he dissected the heart of a dead elephant. Later, he took electrocardiograms of docile circus elephants. But Dr. White was not satisfied. He wanted to measure the heartbeat of a whale, the largest mammal...
...will be on April 3 when Hogan plays in the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga.-he deliberately shifts himself into a state in which people blend into the landscape like so many trees or blades of grass. Opponents actually believe that he has learned how to control his heartbeat and regulate the flow of juices from his thyroid and adrenal glands...