Word: plug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This morning is your very last chance to knife, to eulogize, to blast, to reflect--to put in your two cents or plug nickels about Harvard edit cation in the Fall of 1965. Polls will be collected today...
...estimated 25 million Americans who suffer from coronary artery disease, fewer than 10 million have their problem neatly confined to a plug of fatty or chalky material in a single artery -what doctors call "segmental disease." The majority have a diffuse disease involving several artery branches, vastly complicating all efforts to boost blood flow to the oxygen-starved heart muscle. Because there is as yet no proof that medical treatment with diet, drugs, exercise and control of weight and blood pressure does much good, Santa Monica's Dr. James A. Mc-Eachen told the American College of Cardiology, countless...
...Fitzsimmons couldn't plug the dike forever, and he didn't have a chance on the five goals the Terriers poured in in the second period...
There are assuredly more quizzes in store for the test-happy and testy alike. One possibility: The National TV Repair Test. Question: "Your TV set keeps asking you questions. What can be done about it?" Answer: Pull the plug...
...blood burst into the abscess. Either way, the result was the same. Blood mixed with material from inside the abscess to produce a clot that filled the artery cavity too tightly to be pushed along, thus blocking the arterial flow.* That part of the heart muscle beyond the plug, deprived of nourishing blood and oxygen, lost its elastic muscularity, disrupted the heart's delicate electrical-conduction system, and eventually stopped working. In some cases the victims of these occlusions were dead even before their blood-starved heart muscle had time to do any damage. Eleven succumbed instantly or within...