Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patient is 65 years old and he stops breathing every 30 to 40 seconds throughout the night, a condition known as "sleep apnea". In a case as severe as this the victim awakes unrested and feels the irresistible need to sleep during...
...hours after the usual entry time the patient is admitted. He has electrodes and other devices strapped and taped to his head and upper body. But like most apnea patients, he is so tired that not even these prevent his almost immediate sleep...
Also almost immediately, the patient stops breathing. The readout of his vital signs, led by in formation from the devices on his body into 17 sapphire tipped pens sliding back and forth on a continuously moving strip of paper, instantly reflects the change...
...line showing airflow through mouth and both nostrils drops to nothing. The heartbeat reading becomes erratic. Movement of chin and chest are spasmodic as the patient struggles to draw in air. Eye movement changes and nine channels of brain wave recordings take on the appearance of waking brain activity in the thin blue lines...
...forgers' skills, sharpened by greed, malice, political zeal or simply the sheer joy of confounding learned scholars or esteemed institutions, have called into being an opposing set of skills: those of the patient, persistent document sleuths, who squint through magnifying glasses and microscopes at each potential telltale squiggle on yellowed pages or pristine documents in countless offices, from police station houses to great universities and national archives...