Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that his entire Politburo had been called on the red carpet to Moscow. Nonetheless, in downtown Warsaw the country's parliament assembled on schedule to discuss and ratify the government's settlement with the striking workers. Then came the first shock: a bulletin that Gierek had been stricken with a "serious heart disturbance" and was being attended by five physicians, including the Minister of Health. But the proceedings continued, and in his televised address Premier Jozef Pinkowski eloquently recommended that the strike agreement be adopted so that the government could go on and "rebuild the confidence...
...revolution that toppled Nicaragua's dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, twelve months ago sent shock waves through the region. On the one hand, it stirred yearnings for reform and revolt among both students and the disfranchised peasants; on the other, it prompted panic-stricken oligarchs, determined to retain historic power, to harden then-resistance to change. Ironically, while Nicaragua itself has been able to make considerable headway in consolidating its revolution-peacefully, thus far -a spiral of terrorist violence has escalated elsewhere. Lawless gunmen of both the left and right have brought El Salvador and Guatemala to the brink...
...opposition politicians, many of whom have been tortured and mutilated. Armed leftists, meanwhile, have launched sporadic guerrilla attacks, including the bombing last month of a military convoy truck in Guatemala City. The leftists also appear to be winning some support among the country's 3.4 million poverty-stricken Indians, who constitute almost half the population...
...pumping chambers. Known as ventricular fibrillation, these attacks cut off circulation and halt the flow of blood to the brain. Only powerful electrical shocks administered directly to the chest or heart with bulky machines called defibrillators seem to stop such life-threatening episodes. But all too often, victims are stricken at home or in the streets and help does not arrive in time...
Mirowski and his colleagues have implanted the device in six people, all of whom had already been stricken at least twice by episodes of cardiac arrest. Since their surgery, the patients have experienced a total of eleven cardiac incidents; during all but two of them, the machine restored normal heartbeat. One patient died even though the defibrillator worked faultlessly. The doctors shut down the device in a 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy because his heartbeat was so rapid that it triggered frequent shocks. The device is now being reprogrammed to accept the boy's quick pulse. The longest user...