Word: prolonger
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...manages to win both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, and everybody figures that the sport of kings is due for another coronation. But the last horse to win U.S. racing's Triple Crown was Citation in 1948-and the less said the better about his attempts to prolong the royal line at stud. Pretenders still keep popping up: Tim Tarn in 1958, Carry Back in 1961, Northern Dancer in 1964. What does them...
...intricate machinery should be turned off and the heart allowed to stop, is far more than a legal problem. It involves the doctor as deeply as it does the patient or his anguished kin. Trained from his first day in medical school that his duty is to save and prolong life, the physician may not only resort to extraordinary measures, but he may continue them even after a flat EEG line (meaning no electrical activity in the brain) has persisted so long that there can be no real hope of recovery...
Polite Reproduction. Many of the physiologic details that Masters and Johnson have revealed may well be of primary interest only to other sexologists. But they are already being put to good medical use, helping to make it possible for supposedly infertile couples to have children, helping to prolong the enjoyment of a healthy and normal sex life for aging couples at least into their 80s. And other universities are already following Washington's lead in setting up programs for the study of what they politely call "reproduction," and treatment of associated problems...
...recommended that employing a permanent pinch hitter for pitchers could prolong a star's career by five years...
...medicine, says U.C.L.A.'s dean of curriculum, Dr. David Solomon, that "the schools now cannot cover more than a small fraction of the total medical information available." Yet, paradoxically, several leading medical schools have come to the conclusion that the way to meet the problem is not to prolong medical education but to shorten it. Today, for virtually all physicians, education takes a minimum of nine years after high school: four in college, four in medical school, one in an internship. Specialists spend two to seven years more in an ill-paid residency...