Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to the wall, exposing my belly to their blows. Later, they turned me to the wall again, demanding to know the name of Luis' fiancee, so they could arrest her. I said I didn't know her, though I did. They used a new (to me) shock device. It was some kind of wheel with spikes on it, which they rolled across my back, scratching me. As they pushed down on it, it also gave me a severe electric shock...
What was unexpected was Nixon's lapse into vascular shock six hours after the operation. Shock generally indicates partial collapse of the circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons...
...blood pressure, Nixon was given three pints of packed red blood cells. "If proper measures had not been available and instituted, he may have died," Lungren said later. Nixon had received a total of six pints of blood by week's end, and, though he was out of shock within three hours, the apparent continued loss of blood kept him in danger...
...until Christmas to make its final report on how the new system is working. It probably will not be too harsh. "We just live in a nonjudgmental society," said Committee Chairman Bradley Efron, a professor of statistics. But today's graduates may be in for a rude shock when they discover that in the workaday world, not everyone can count...
...knows that audience viscerally. In this respect he resembles Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan, both of whom managed to write hits about such then queasy subjects as drug addiction (The Vortex) and homosexuality (Ross). Like them, Shaffer possesses an apparently flawless intuition about how much he can shock the audience without turning it off. Coming from a nation that reveres horses, he shrewdly placed a completely nude love scene-which might otherwise have caused a fuss-just before the boy's outrage on the horses. He also has an ear tuned to his audience's particular...