Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart attack and whether blood is flowing freely through the coronary arteries. The test is usually performed first while the patient is exercising on a treadmill or bicycle and then while resting. Similarly, physicians can radioactively label components of the blood, like red cells, to see how efficiently the organ is pumping...
After opening the abdominal cavity with an incision of about six to eight inches, the doctors made a careful inspection to see if the twisting bullet had damaged any major blood vessels or organs. There was special concern that it might have hit the pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes that can dissolve tissue and, if they leak out, cause severe inflammation. Fortunately that vital organ escaped damage. Then the doctors ran their gloved hands along the entire 20-ft. length of the small intestine and the 5 ft. of large intestine. Typically this inch-by-inch examination is repeated...
...voice of the organ echoes down the mighty Gothic nave as the congregation rises to sing the Doxology...
...edge of the minister's solemn dark surplice as he sweeps up into the pulpit and the choir and organ thunder the last amen can be seen the orange and black seal of the university, and below it Princeton's motto...
...deep church bell tolls. The casket passes into the decorous stillness of the vaulted interior, leaving the hundred or so second liners and the musicians outside. The organ plays hymns that would be favorites in any Baptist church: In the Garden, Just as I Am. A priest reads from Job and speaks of the "gift of music" that Albert Walters had. Funerals like Walters', as William J. Schafer fairly puts it in Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazz, are "public acts, theatrical displays designed not to hide burial as a fearful obscenity but to exhibit it as a community...