Word: pump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage: 17-, 18-year-old kids, in skimpy swim suits, rippling their muscles. They've come from the little curtained-off area, where they prepare. The warm-ups are simple, designed to pump blood into muscles so they will bulge angrily--curis with dumbbells, push-ups, chins. For many, it's their first contest, and they're not sure quite what to do, but they know the baby oil is key. Their handlers rub a thin film all over, not too much or they'll look greasy, but enough so the light will catch all the little hollows and ridges...
Water usage in Cambridge has increased 25 per cent in the last two weeks, though, and Fagone said antiquated pumping equipment at the city's Fresh Pond treatment plant is feeling the strain. "It's tough on the old equipment: if one pump quit tomorrow, we'd be in big trouble." Fagone said, adding "I am doing a lot of praying...
...better alternative, according to some researchers, is a device that could take over temporarily for either of the two main pumping chambers of the heart, particularly the workhorse left ventricle. These assist devices shunt blood from the ventricle to a pump outside the body that sends it directly to the abdominal aorta or femoral artery to continue its natural circulation. The heart is left intact but goes on a sort of holiday, rebuilding its strength so that it can later resume its full work load. Says John C. Norman of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, who has been working...
Still, even a heart with significant muscle loss can effectively pump blood. The real killer is disturbances in the heart's rhythm. These are most likely to occur in the first minutes or hours after the attack, caused by irregularities in the flow of electrical signals that control the beat of the heart. The heartbeat may develop abnormal rhythms and degenerate into a useless twitching or quivering. No longer is the heart able to drive blood through the body. Cardiac arrest ensues...
...department. Although he admits that professors often develop "methodologies" that get in the way of truly inspirational teaching. Leon Kirchner, Rosen Professor of Music and teacher of Harvard's only credited music performance course, argues. "I think that very talented musicians can use the University as a sort of pump primer intellectually which will ultimately realize itself in musical values...