Word: oxygenate
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...realistic air sequences are the oxygen that keeps Yank alive. Best shots: swift glimpses of Spitfires slithering toward the Channel coast, close-ups of a fighter plane's eight guns blazing, a well-constructed studio version of the evacuation of Dunkirk...
...world, to scientists at the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary meeting (see p. 63). For his research he received an honorary degree. The thin Andes air kills weaklings. So the 12,000,000 Andes strong-hearts are the product of centuries of painful adaptation to scarcity of oxygen. In years of laboratory study. Dr. Monge found...
...Almost all lowlanders develop mountain sickness, known as soroche, if they live above 10,000 feet. (When flying at this level, aviators don their oxygen masks.) The severity of soroche varies widely with different individuals: some ruin their hearts; others become acclimatized in 15 or 20 years...
...week. An experienced jumper, he leaped five times from altitudes up to 16,500 feet, laden with his weight in equipment. His baggage: a device to measure altitude and his breathing rate; a microphone; a motion-picture camera to record turns of his body; a stop watch; a special oxygen mask and helmet...
...sunspots poured streams of subatomic electrical particles earthward. Striking the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere, they excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms into luminescence, also set off a magnetic storm. Some consequences...