Word: oxygenate
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...longest (five hours) air raids in Chungking's three years of experience, the dugout's ventilation system had failed. The yellow vegetable-oil lamps had flickered out, one by one, for lack of oxygen. The thousands within had grown restive, then in panic had tried to force their way out all at once through the narrow twisting slits in the rock. Last official count of the dead: 461-a full half-season's toll in a single evening...
...Mephistophelean mask. And a mask it was-a mask of his own skin. He was a ghastly triumph of plastic surgery. He told Manhattan reporters how his Spitfire had been shot down 28,000 feet over the English Channel. As the plane burst into flames, he pulled off his oxygen mask, bailed out. When picked up, he was terribly burned on his face and hands...
Some astronomers once thought these indicated a new element, "coronium." Others suspected were light elements like oxygen in a high state of atomic excitation...
...twitched like a knee jerk. After two hours, Dr. Brickley pronounced him "dead beyond recall." Electrocution, said Dr. Brickley last week, kills in three different ways: 1) it heats the body abnormally, coagulating the blood; 2) it contracts the muscles, choking off the body's supply of oxygen; 3) it produces rupture and hemorrhages of brain and heart...
...medicos then performed a pneumo-encephalomyelogram, in which spinal fluid is withdrawn, replaced with oxygen little by little; then took X-rays. In such X-rays the oxygen outlines the brain ventricles, indicates the presence of growths. But Pandora's brain showed none. The famed specialists scratched their heads, brooded, figured, studied smears on slides. Next afternoon, the sick panda, far from the Western Heavens of Szechwan, the nine sacred mountains, the flying horses and the golden monkeys and the citizens with tails, slept quietly under a drug when death, as it must to all animals, came to Pandora...