Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said one U.S. officer. The stunned survivors burrowed into the slimy mud of the paddies and stayed there, refusing to continue the assault. Desperately, Captain Kenneth Good, 32, a West Pointer from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, sought to rally the Vietnamese for a counterattack, but he was stitched through the neck and chest by a burst from a Viet Cong automatic rifle. The government troops stayed...
What happens in a stroke (which doctors call a cerebrovascular accident or CVA) seems superficially simple: a shutdown of any kind in one of the arteries in the neck or head cuts off the essential supply of blood and oxygen to part of the brain, which then "dies." For unlike cells in flesh, or even in bone, which go on multiplying until near the end of life, brain cells have virtually no power to reproduce themselves. Medicine can only rely on whatever self-healing capacity the damaged brain area has-or find some way to stimulate another part...
...carotid arteries that channel blood through the neck to the brain are almost as subject to atherosclerotic disease with advancing age as are the coronaries. They may simply be narrowed, so that less blood gets through. They may be almost closed by a fatty plaque, so that a clot forms there and clogs an artery. About 85% of strokes are caused by arterial shutdowns; about 10% by hemorrhage (bleeding through a burst blood vessel in the brain, usually in victims of high blood pressure), and 5% by traveling clots in the bloodstream...
...some cases, the next thing to do is inject radiopaque dye into the patient's arm or neck arteries and take an arteriogram, a rapid-fire series of X rays. (Two per second is the standard speed; six per second is now possible, and 60 per second may be soon.) These may show precisely where the clot has done its damage; they can give general guidance to the doctors and therapists who will have to work with the patient later...
...ridden Skybolt missile, and the U.S. offer to supply Britain and France with the proved Polaris (TIME, Dec. 28). The one Allied leader who unreservedly welcomed the Polaris offer was Harold Macmillan, who by thus keeping a separate nuclear deterrent for Britain had saved his own neck...