Word: oxygenate
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...President awoke several times during the night, was restricted to a diet of fruit juices, and remained under the oxygen tent. The tent, Press Secretary Hagerty explained, was normal procedure for cardiac patients...
...waiting wheelchair, and was taken immediately to the two-room presidential suite on the eighth floor of the hospital's tower. On the way up he politely inquired after the health of the elevator operator, Charles Adams. Ike went right to bed, and was placed under an oxygen tent. The green-and-cream-colored suite is reserved for very important patients and furnished in the style of a hotel room, with upholstered chairs, a carpet on the floor, a desk and several lamps...
...actors, film and ideas from just about everywhere. Most favorites will be back. For the first time, the major Hollywood studios will be onstage or on cathode, shuffling for attention: after years of sulking, the movies have decided to embrace TV. The hug will approach strangulation, but until the oxygen runs out it ought to be the most fun TV fans have ever...
Developed for the Army Chemical Corps, diffusion board resembles ordinary wood-pulp fiberboard, ⅝ in. thick. Impregnated with special chemicals (the kinds are still classified), it acts much like an ordinary Army gas mask, filters out gases and germ-carrying particles as well as radioactive dust, lets oxygen and carbon dioxide breathe through. Against direct radiation itself, the porous diffusion board gives no protection. Thick lead or concrete shields must be used to keep out death-dealing gamma rays. Moreover, lining the walls of an average home with the board would not eliminate dust, which could sift in over windowsills...
Henry's jigger is his beautiful wife Katy. To John Rivers, a slightly priggish minister's son and a sexual teetotaler at 28, Katy is a lyric goddess, distant and holy as Dante's Beatrice. When a siege of illness puts Henry in an oxygen tent, John's Platonic devotion is rudely shattered. A shivering, sleepless Kate finds her way to his bed one night and stays there...