Word: heartbeating
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...ballads. Blacks cohabited with whites on the Top 40; boys packing sexual threat in their jeans shared the bill with girls tenderized in lacquer and lace. The mood could be tender too. On the radio, a slow tune just naturally followed an up-tempo number; it was the heartbeat of teen America. The 19-year-old Aretha Franklin could take a Broadway spiritual like Meredith Willson's Are You Sure and transform it into a righteous steeple raiser. Baby, that was rock and roll...
...scene of miracle working repeated often enough in hospitals throughout the country. A tiny human being, weighing merely a pound, enters the world with premature haste. His lungs are too rudimentary to admit vital air, his kidneys too weak to cleanse blood. Neonatologists, nurses and technicians descend, stabilizing his heartbeat and temperature, blanketing him in plastic and whisking him off to the intensive-care unit...
...down at my desk and began plowing. Eight hours later I was finished, my hair snow white and my heartbeat a little erratic but otherwise none the worse for wear. Even though I had perused only a small portion of the work, I felt ready to bang out an intellectual manifesto for anthology addicts...
...private nurse, Min Cho, made note of his increasing pallor, but it was not until 5:45, when he was "unresponsive" and turning blue, that she summoned the hospital's cardiac-arrest team. He was pronounced dead at 6:31 a.m., of an unexplained heart arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat...
...personal and political heartbeat of the Reagan presidency is now in the hands of five people besides the President himself: his wife Nancy, Chief of Staff Don Regan and his deputy Dennis Thomas, the new press spokesman Marlin Fitzwater and Pollster Richard Wirthlin. They regulate Reagan's energies, shape his moods, provide his information, schedule his forays beyond the comforting tranquillity of the Oval Office. They are not a formal body. Mostly they cluster in twos or threes, but they are always linked minute by minute through the phones. It is a singular power mechanism, twisted by its own internal...