Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tank of his Lotus held only 40 gal. v. 50 for the Scarab. In the pit, the Lotus's starter froze, and by the time Gurney got back on the track, Foyt was a full lap ahead. Desperately, he tried to close the gap, but the strain was too much: on the 42nd lap, the Lotus was out for good with a broken gearbox...
...progressively more strenuous, the volunteers shaped up dramatically. On the average, Dr. Holloszy told the American College of Cardiology, the men cut their time for running a mile, from 8 min. 51 sec. to 7 min. 36 sec. And they did so with far less huff, puff and heart strain: pulse rates were as much as 19 beats-per-minute lower following exercise than they had been at the beginning of the program...
...with some interior rapture; a stenographer stops typing and stiffens in her chair; waiting for the children's hamburgers to brown, a housewife suddenly presses her hands on the kitchen table until the knuckles show white. These are not the victims of some new virus, nor has the strain of modern living sent them around the bend. Instead, they are practicing the very latest wrinkle in body culture: isometrics...
...dresses on a sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
...fact, has been a long bout with a troubled psyche. A little over a year ago, her 20-year-old son was nearly killed by four attacking thugs, and soon after recovering he was back in the hospital, near death, as a result of an auto accident. The strain was too much, and the mother opened her medicine cabinet and ate every pill...