Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated for that reason...
...repeatedly threw his landlady, who was attempting to dispossess him, out of his apartment, causing her to be hospitalized for bruises, shock, a possible fractured...
...another "pawn." To dumbfounded newshawks in Albany Governor Lehman had just handed a mimeographed statement: "I feel that the time has come when I may ask release from the cares and responsibilities of the Governorship. Accordingly I shall not be a candidate for re-election this autumn." A shock to all but Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had known it "for some time," Herbert Lehman's firmly-worded refusal to run for the third time sprouted a crop of rumors. Some said it was due to Mrs. Lehman's dislike of Albany as a residence. Others reported that...
...fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action of the heart ceases; failure of circulation results...
...that an average-sized pig matches a fat little man in body weight and heart weight; an average sheep matches heart and body of a medium-sized woman. Having discovered those facts, Mr. Ferris learned that a couple of French physiologists in 1899 had found that a strong electric shock will stop fibrillation and restart the heart on its regular beat. After verifying this, Mr. Ferris determined that "to be successful, a counter-shock must be administered promptly after the fibrillating shock, probably within a few minutes...