Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Community Fund, included on the Charities card, is the university-wide Red Feather Drive. Representatives from every department of the college met yesterday to lay plans for this phase of the collection...
Pessimist or optimist, nobody was talking of cutting back in a post-Korea letdown. Nothing that they saw beyond Korea had changed, and neither had their plans nor the urgency of rearmament. Phase by phase, here is how U.S. preparedness would probably look...
...they had done that, Douglas MacArthur, instead of receiving victory plaudits in Seoul last week, would probably have been sitting in Tokyo directing the reinvasion of Korea from Japan. MacArthur instantly recognized the Reds' vital error. Some people ridiculed him for saying on July 20: "The first phase of the campaign has ended and with it the chance for victory by the North Korean forces...
Shock & Counter-Shock. Selye has coined the forbidding name "general adaptation syndrome" for what happens when the system is subjected to overall stress. It begins, he holds, with an alarm reaction. The first phase is shock, in which body temperature and blood pressure fall, along with blood salt and blood sugar. The shock phase may last from a few minutes to 24 hours. Even before it ends, the system begins to mobilize for counter-shock: the pituitary sends more ACTH flooding to the adrenals, where it boosts the output of adrenal hormones. Blood pressure, blood salt and blood sugar increase...
Finally, even resistance wears out. Then the system reaches the stage of exhaustion. This was what Dr. Selye had found in his rats in 1936, shown by enlarged and overactive adrenals, wasted thymus and bleeding ulcers. But exhaustion, the last phase, may produce many other "diseases of adaptation," notably some types of high blood pressure, several kidney diseases, rheumatoid and gouty arthritis...