Word: heartbeating
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...moon, as measured by temperature probes placed in the lunar surface, seems to be giving off heat at twice the rate of the earth, though skeptics suggested that instrument malfunction may have caused the surprisingly high readings. The moon may also be racked by minor volcanic eruptions ("But her heartbeat is feeble indeed," cautioned Seismologist Gary Latham of Columbia University...
...second messenger," said Sutherland of AMP. Subsequent research showed that his description is apt. Studies have established, for example, that when adrenaline output is increased by fear or anxiety, it is not the adrenaline itself that speeds up the heart; rather, the adrenaline activates cyclic AMP, which stimulates the heartbeat...
...ancchoic chamber is a completely echoless room, acoustically isolated from the outside world. A person inside the room can hear his own heartbeat because there are no distracting outside noises or internal echoes...
South Marsh Island 73's heartbeat is a powerful oil drill rotating 140 r.p.m., pushing 200,000 Ibs. of pipe with 4,000 Ibs. of pressure. There is an omnipresence about its throb and its beat, shaking the two-storied concrete bunkers the men live in, even as they sleep. It rarely ceases. "Ain't enough wind or rain, ice or fog to ever stop that son of a bitch," one crewman observes with grudging respect...
When one attends a Chekhov play, one does not, strictly speaking, go to the theater. One drops in on life. No stethoscope is needed to detect the heartbeat of existence. Chekhov may be the best imaginable argument for a playwright's having some other occupation...