Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts, he led an active and unusual life: prospecting in the Far West, hunting trips in Canada, a lucrative law practice in Boston and New York, the summer...
McFarland was one of the first researchers to show how lack of oxygen could impair the sensory perception and mental functioning of pilots and mountaineers...
Much of McFarland's work dealt with the effects of diminished oxygen supply on the central nervous system, especially in the field of vision, and with the process of again. His theory relating the sensory and mental changes of aging to alterations in the oxygenation of body tissues has been widely accepted...
...guardrail. His car burst into flames, searing his lungs with intense heat and poisonous flames from the volatile fuel. Unable to trigger the car's fire extinguisher, Lauda lay trapped while three fellow drivers struggled to free him. His face and head were badly burned and disfigured, the oxygen count in his blood fell below the level necessary, in theory at least, to sustain life...
...happens but much is felt. "Her heart pressed up weakly against her ribs," the reader learns of Clara, a young working woman of the kind once called "spinster." Or "Clara felt slightly breathless as though the feebleness of the light was a sign of an ever-diminishing supply of oxygen." And (Clara, in perfect health, leaving a hotel) "Clara's ankles felt weak. There seemed no way she would ever get through the revolving doors ahead...