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...finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...
...belied by his appearance. His complexion was pallid, and he looked haggard and weary. Clearly, the two weeks already spent in San Clemente had not, as hoped, begun to refresh his spirits or restore his vigor. The evidence of the President's weariness came as a particular jolt to some of his staffers: they literally had not seen him since his arrival...
...into medical research, and by 1933 he had proved that electrical shock could stop ventricular fibrillation-an often-fatal uncoordinated fluttering of the heart's pumping muscles. Kouwenhoven went on to develop the techniques: opening the chest, placing electrodes directly on the heart, and applying a brief jolt of electricity. Later, while experimenting with a nonsurgical method that involved placing the electrodes on the chest, he noticed that pressing down on the chest increased the patient's blood pressure. That observation led him to develop the revolutionary heart-starting technique known as CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CPR consists...
Last Thursday, when most Washingtonians were just pulling themselves out of bed, Kenneth Cole Jr., head of the President's Domestic Council, was huddled with his staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Steaming cups of coffee were on the table to help jolt the men to full alert. The Alaska pipeline bill up before the Congress was the urgent subject -how to speed its passage, shear off extraneous amendments. There was optimism in the Roosevelt Room in that first light, the force of the President's energy statement still fresh...
When I woke up this morning and scanned The Boston Globe, I received a little jolt. It wasn't because the Arabs and Jews were devastatingly blowing each other up again. I could handle that. Nor was the source President Nixon's search for a successor to Exspiro Agnew. Since I knew he wouldn't choose his wife (at a time like this, the country can't stand Pat), what did it matter? In fact, nothing on page one so much as gave me a shiver...