Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart. Perhaps more dangerous in the long run are the heating pads, blankets, bed controls and reading lamps that everyone takes for granted. If current from any of these ungrounded appliances reaches a patient's body, he may suffer burns or electric shock. Even when the supposedly safe three-prong plug with a ground wire is used, there is still a danger. Because the equipment is plugged in and out so often, usually by undertrained aides who understand nothing about electricity, the ground wire may break inside the cable or the plug...
...pitch to McGlauglin, Whitney sped toward second before Dorwart had even started his motion. Dorwart quickly fired to second baseman John Ballantyne, but Whitney stopped, forcing Ballantyne to run him down while Medea broke for home. Ballantyne threw home to catcher Jack Turco, and the umpire ruled Medea safe in a close call...
...Action. The Administration's emphasis on economy fairly guarantees that there will be no "Nixon domestic program" worthy of the name for the foreseeable future. Head Start, about which Nixon is enthusiastic, appears safe. The Job Corps is in disfavor, but will be retained, on a somewhat reduced scale until an alternative is worked out. Programs to subsidize hiring of hardcore unemployed will be expanded...
Transplants, Cooley told an American College of Cardiology meeting in Los Angeles, have produced evidence that the development of a successful artificial heart "may actually be easier than we had previously believed." The explanation: nature has provided the mammalian (including the human) heart with an elaborate fail-safe system of dual controls, one through the nervous system and another through hormonal channels. Early researchers on artificial hearts were overwhelmed by the difficulties of trying to duplicate these enormously complex natural systems. This, said Cooley, is not necessary...
...gave her "a sense of losing myself." Brearley girls sketched nudes from life and painted still-life compositions in oils. Helen was good at realistic painting. "It was in the wrist," she says, with a sense of delight undimmed by the years. "It was a world where I was safe, talented, secure...