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...victim is treated promptly by recompression, he is almost certain to die. The greatest danger of air embolism is in emergency ascents-perhaps after the scuba has gone out of kilter at great depth. Dr. Lanphier notes: "Only a well-instructed and coolheaded diver can be expected to repress the powerful instinct to hold his breath on making his way to the surface. Air embolism is believed to be second only to drowning as a cause of death in sport diving, but it is often unrecognized...
...Take a Bath. Though Philologist Ross admitted that "silence [is] perhaps the most favorite of all U usages today." the upper classes do have to open their mouths sometimes. They may repress a shudder at saying "Cheers" when drinking, but they will flatly refuse to say the non-U "God bless!" They do not "take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior...
...Here you have the alarming spectacle of parents being terrified of their children Instead of using their paternal and maternal instincts, parents rely on cheap books about psychiatry-which they don't understand-and are afraid to repress the child. The result is that the child runs the home...
...profligacy of King Saud's household has increased, says Philby, his tyranny has tightened. Whenever his subjects, usually students and other sons of traders enriched by his extravagance, have shown signs of political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers...
...same outlook. His opportunities to blame someone else are minimized. You give him rope, finally make him aware that he's hanging himself." The one essential that all Elliott inmates have in common is their tendency to act out antisocial behavior which most people express in words, or repress within themselves. "Acting-out" problem cases have been regarded as almost hopeless, but Grant believes he has found a way to treat them: keep the subject concerned about and facing his problems. In bull sessions, with a Marine sergeant in charge, all members of the group are encouraged to talk...