Word: oxygenate
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...Princeton will be the study of air behavior at "hypersonic" speeds-above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon and try to deal with it before the practical engineers start working at Mach...
...easy; there was nothing much they could do about it then. Her trouble was that the by-pass between the aorta and the main artery to the lungs failed to close some time after birth. The open by-pass is vital to the fetus (fetal blood does not get oxygen from the lungs before birth), but it is harmful in later life because it puts an extra strain on the heart...
...chain-talker, and the only thing that stops her momentarily is the need for oxygen; she gasps, and the unpunctuated torrent of words gushes on until she must breathe again. When someone looks as if he may try to interrupt, she may shut her dark blue eyes or stare him down, but she keeps going. Her accent has been described by her ex-husband as "half British and half pickaninny." She does not even stop talking to smear on fresh lipstick; the words sound like a gurgle, but out they come...
...Oxygen and No Tennis. For the past 14 years Schoenberg has been writing his music in California. Now retired from teaching at U.C.L.A., he lives in a white-stuccoed house in Brentwood Heights, near Los Angeles...
...avid tennis: "Then, suddenly, no one wanted to play with me." He realizes that his opponents knew he shouldn't be playing: his asthma is so bad that when Who's Who asked him to list his recreations several years ago "I was tempted to say 'oxygen inhaling...