Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart attack and should have been on her way to recovery. But part of the muscle in the wall of her left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, was too badly damaged to snap back spontaneously. Six hours after the patient reached the hospital, she was in shock-blue in the face and in a cold sweat. Doctors at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center wanted to give her circulation a boost, at least for a few hours. If her heart could be relieved of its work load, and at the same time strengthened by an increased flow...
...Reports that there were some white people among the looters, arsonists and snipers in Detroit's riot comes as a terrible shock to me. It is most disheartening, since white people generally have made fine progress in years past. This may spoil everything. I would urge those who feel confirmed in their prejudices and who are quick with their denunciations to remember that not all white people condoned the lawlessness...
There, most newspapers were just as hard on him as the Canadian press and public had been. "The bad manners of General de Gaulle may shock," said the usually pro-Gaullist Paris Presse-L'lntransigeant. "They should not surprise." De Gaulle remained grandly aloof. "There is no De Gaulle problem," said a presidential spokesman, "but a Canadian problem." The government claimed that the Canadian visit was a total success since it focused world attention on a Canadian problem too long submerged and glossed over. "I could not have done otherwise," DeGaulle confided to an aide after his return...
Most people know that they can get a severe electric shock if they recklessly poke into the back of an operating TV set, where high-voltage components are placed out of harm's way. But until recently, few were aware that the same high voltages may pose a more subtle threat: they can produce X rays that, if improperly shielded, endanger viewers sitting unusually close...
...computer mechanism in every U.S. commercial aircraft. At three-second intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger an audio-visual alarm and possibly give the pilots a harmless electric shock. In today's jets, the warning would come 60 seconds prior to possible collision, when the aircraft were about 20 miles apart. Twenty seconds later, after electronic analysis of courses, speeds and altitudes, the sensor-computers would signal the best possible collision-avoidance maneuver each pilot should execute, such as "stop...