Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than lightning. The Johnson popularity was down to 55%, plenty for a landslide in any presidential election but a new low for him. Support for his conduct of the Viet Nam war dipped below 50% for the first time. A clear majority of 54% said they favored a U.S. pull-out from Viet Nam if the confrontation there between Buddhist monks and military men flared into full-scale civil...
...frightful cost in both money and emotion. The patient's family, says Harvard's Dr. Robert S. Schwab, suffers cruelly and may have to pay $250 a day for apparatus which is merely sending blood through an organism that is otherwise dead. "When," he asks, "do you pull the plug out and make this expensive equipment available to someone who might live...
...question of when to "pull the plug" and let death occur has acquired new urgency with the practice of transplanting kidneys and other vital organs. Transplant surgeons want organs as fresh as possible; the chance that a cadaver kidney will work well in the recipient patient is vastly increased if it can be removed immediately after circulation has stopped. But in the U.S., as in most countries, it would be illegal to remove a kidney from a patient who has not yet been pronounced dead...
...produced no solid disputes over issues. All four candidates, for the present at least, support President Johnson's Vietnam policy. All have declared their support for the right-to-work law, perhaps because Virginia is still industry-hunting and because organized labor has yet to show any real political pull in the state...
Villanova will get its only field points from Bizzarro and will pray for Horner, Patrick, Hamilton, and hurdler Ken Coniglio to pull them into contention...