Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argued that this time Europe has no choice but unity-what French Political Analyst Raymond Aron calls "the shock treatment." But Aron adds: "The problem with such treatment is that it either cures or kills, and one is not really sure until you try it." The signs this time are somewhat auspicious. When a French Foreign Minister begins mouthing "European" phrases, one can judge the impact of recent events on the time-honored French policy of lonely grandeur...
Coupled with shock, a feeling of anger has arisen. Anger at the Arabs for launching their attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year; anger at the Americans for imposing the cease-fire just as Israeli forces stood on the verge of achieving a complete victory; anger at the fact that Israel was compelled to resupply the Egyptian Third Army, after it was trapped in battle and isolated. And anger, as well, at a United Nations, which sat in silence as evidence was presented documenting the torture and murder of Israeli soldiers by the Syrians...
...Simple. Kouwenhoven, now 87, drifted into heart research almost by accident. In 1928, after 14 years at Johns Hopkins as an electrical engineer, he was asked by New York's Consolidated Edison Co. to help reduce electric shock fatalities among telephone linemen and the public. His work led him into medical research, and by 1933 he had proved that electrical shock could stop ventricular fibrillation-an often-fatal uncoordinated fluttering of the heart's pumping muscles. Kouwenhoven went on to develop the techniques: opening the chest, placing electrodes directly on the heart, and applying a brief jolt...
Schoolteacher John Miller and a neighbor were painting Miller's barn roof at his farm near Lucasville, Ohio. Wham! The neighbor was almost knocked off his aluminum ladder by an electric shock. In the town of Franklin Furnace, Farmer C.B. Ruggles' son was riding his pony when-whap!-he and the animal were jolted, apparently by electrical charges in the metallic parts of the bridle and stirrups. A housewife in Lucasville turned on the tap to do the dishes...
...becomes scarcer and more expensive, the economic shock waves will hit hard throughout the economy. Petroleum is a basic raw material used in many products, including chemicals, paints, plastics and synthetic textiles. Other industries-steel, aluminum, electric power-use large quantities of oil in the course of production. When petroleum supplies become pinched and prices push up, these industries may well be forced to restrict output and raise their own prices, thus putting even more inflationary pressures on the economy. The new oil crisis, says James Wall, president of Celanese Chemical Co., confronts the American economy with "probably the most...