Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important factors in the economic advance. Though they expect this pace to slow slightly in 1964, Commerce Department economists look for construction outlays to continue to buoy the economy, rising 5% to a new record of $65.6 billion. In addition to this fresh spending, Americans will pump another $21 billion into the economy just to keep their buildings, roads and homes in good repair...
...trunk of a tree containing 36 girls. Somebody grabs somebody's nose in a nutcracker and darn near twists it off. A yokel sits on his front porch and earnestly whittles a new seat for a two-holer. Two young men stalk a birthday cake and then pump it full of bullets. One of them runs slowly across the screen, stark-naked. "Cuckoo!" says a clock on the sound track. "Cuckoo!" And it really...
...used a new mist-making drug, N-acetylcysteine (trade named Mucomyst by Mead Johnson & Co.) on 28 patients aged 7 to 22. He clapped a face mask on his patients twice a day, before meals, and got them to inhale Mucomyst aerosol supplied under gentle pressure by a small pump. After 20 minutes, each bedridden child was turned into assorted head-down positions to help him spit out the mucus. Stronger children got rid of the mucus by taking a short but brisk run, which started them coughing...
...from advance briefings in lay language by key scheduled speakers, and had a chance to cross-question them. And so, from California, Cant cabled four stories-a controversy over freezing the stomach to lessen ulcer pains, the results of a remarkable Red Chinese surgical operation, the use of a pump to relieve a diseased heart, and a bowel operation to lower the blood's content of cholesterol. These stories, edited and checked in New York, are on top of the week's medical news-having gained from advance preparation...
...into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks in a hospital, at great economic and emotional cost to the patient. But now, Dr. Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor and pump are so delicate that they...