Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this way, the cardiologists hoped, the ventricle would be spared much of the strain under which it had labored. While it would not literally rest, it would have a chance to regain muscle tone and strength. That might take as long as three weeks. If everything worked out as hoped, Dr. DeBakey planned to detach the pump from his patient's chest but leave the ¾-in plastic tubes implanted. They might come in handy later. At week's end DeRudder's condition had the doctors baffled. The pump was working extremely well, but he remained...
...mile, which he ran in 9:05.5 this winter, but he might have to give way in this event to Walt Hewlett, the two-time cross-country all-American who stayed out of indoor competition this winter. Hewlett was running well during the Puerto Rico trip and might regain the form that made him two-mile champion last year...
...Nang was now in Communist hands, according to Premier Ky, who announced that the government soon will launch military operations there to regain control. Ky blamed Da Nang's mayor, a 37-year-old doctor, who has been in office since January. Warned Ky: "Either Da Nang's mayor is shot or the government will fall." Whether so dire a threat would quell the unrest, or simply fan it, a nervous Saigon-and an anxious Washington-waited...
Fighting to regain stability, Armstrong took another emergency step. He began firing Gemini's re-entry attitude-control rockets, which are designed to be used only to position the capsule properly as it re-enters the atmosphere on its way back to earth. "We are regaining control of the spacecraft slowly," he reported. By the time Gemini was out over the Pacific, it was getting back on even keel, sailing serenely through space only a few miles away from the Agena, which had been re-stabilized by radioed commands from ground controllers. "O.K., relax," the Coastal Sentry controller advised...
There are plenty of question marks. How well will the hitters perform? Will Tobin and Neville regain their 1964 form? Can McCandlish continue to pitch as well as he did at the end of last year? Will he and Scott get any help from the less-experienced pitchers...