Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Giant" rescue helicopter was raked by automatic weapons and exploded in flames. His clothes afire, Young was severely burned. Disregarding his own injuries, he gave first aid to a stunned survivor from the wreck, then waved off rescuers after spotting an enemy flak trap. Drifting in and out of shock for 17 hours, Young hobbled and crawled six miles to a clearing before signaling for help...
...Linus Pauling's newest speculation [May 3], "orthomolecular psychiatry," brings forth all kinds of new hope for humanity. When one begins to feel schizophrenic, a simple shot in the brain might replace hours of psychotherapy and shock treatment. In fact, his theory is so good that the only disadvantage I can see is that he might be putting his son, Dr. Linus Pauling Jr., a prominent Honolulu psychiatrist, out of business...
They took the risk. The police entered and created the shock that the demonstrators had not been able to provide by themselves, the force needed to affect the "consciousness" of the majority. Student activists are going to remember this lesson for a long time. Once you get in, it's a bummer to get you out. So will President Kirk, wherever he's going to be in a year...
...first-timers still harboring old border-town images, Mexico City comes as a happy shock. No sleepy campesinos wrapped in serapes and buried under sombreros greet today's deplaning visitor. Instead, the tourist passes through the hands of efficient English-speaking customs officials and aggressively obliging skycaps into...
...inject small amounts of liquid helium into the liquid oxygen (LOX) lines of two of the engines, damping the sloshing of the LOX and thus changing the resonant frequencies of the engines. Or they may place gas-filled cavities beneath the LOX lines of two engines to act as shock absorbers. Either solution would cause two engines to pulse at different frequencies from the others, preventing a five-engine resonant buildup of the Pogo Effect...