Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGuire instructed the jury before it gave the verdict that a body is only alive if it shows a steady heartbeat and respiration outside the mother's body...
When he became Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, the Oval Office was only a step-and a heartbeat-away. But Johnson made immediately clear what their relationship would be: master and vassal. Shortly after the 1964 convention that nominated them, L.B.J. drove Humphrey around his Texas ranch. Spotting a deer, Johnson shouted: "Hubert, there's one for you. Get it!" The very thought of shooting a living creature repelled him, but Humphrey obeyed. Then, as he tells it: "I turned to Johnson with a mixture of satisfaction at having done so well what he wanted and revulsion...
...Salem's murder. Their conclusion may set a far-reaching precedent. For the first time in a criminal case, a jury explicitly stated it had defined death as the cessation of brain activity, a major departure from the traditional definition of death as the absence of breathing and heartbeat that has been in effect in Massachusetts and most other states...
...issue arose because for seven days following the attack, Salem's heartbeat and breathing had been sustained by life-support machines; when they were withdrawn, all life signs ended. So the question was whether Salem had been killed by Golston with the baseball bat or had died when all hospital maintenance of his body systems ceased...
...operation that heart surgeons humorously call "a double cabbage"-from the acronym CAB (for coronary artery bypass). Though more than 90% of the patients who undergo such operations survive at least five years, Nolen knew that any heart surgery posed grave risks. While the surgeons do their work, the heartbeat must be stopped and the blood pumped by machine. Later, the stilled heart must be jolted back to life...