Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Bennett Kouwenhoven, 89, innovative electrical and bio-medical engineer who developed lifesaving heart resuscitation techniques; in Baltimore. Kouwenhoven, who served more than 60 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives...
...labeling of certain patients "Do Not Resuscitate," or DNR. The designation applies to dying patients who are apt to suffer cardiac or respiratory failure. Doctors justify the practice because resuscitation only prolongs a patient painfully and at great expense. Cardiac arrest, they say, is only the last organ failure in a dying patient and to resuscitate him is not to allow nature to take its course...
...Organ Recital Series presents Joan Lippincott of Westminster College Choir. Memorial Church...
...since Bagehot's time the Cabinet's role has changed enormously. In Bagehot's analysis, the Cabinet was the most powerful and effective organ of government, or, as he put it, government's "efficient secret." When Crossman joined the government in 1964, he discovered that, like the House of Lords before it--the Cabinet had moved from the efficient part of the constitution to what Bagehot called the "dignified" part, where its chief role was ceremonial. The Cabinet was at the beck and call of the Prime Minister and, like Parliament, was unable to make or break him. That struggle...
Stone:.. with a synthesizer-like framework of harpsichord, piano, and organ notes played simultaneously, which is much too tightly controlled to flesh out the emotion in the words...