Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of consciousness. These operate automatically on the turns, keeping the pilots' blood from leaving their brains and concentrating in the lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your legs. The centrifugal forces of a 500-mile-an-hour turn increase your weight seven to ten times. You contract your stomach, breathe in gasps...
...Last week the President . . . signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans" (TIME...
...boot camp when one man broke the rules, our chief used to restrict the whole company. . . . In persuading Congress to tighten the on-the-job training law, the Veterans Administration has followed the same line, penalizing the majority in order to weed out offenses committed by a small minority...
Physiologists believe that in many cases high blood pressure is caused by hormones which tighten blood vessels and interfere with the normal flow of body fluids. A University of Pennsylvania researcher now reports that he has identified one of them, has had promising results with extra doses of the pressure-raising hormone itself...
...Signed a bill to tighten standards for on-the-job training of veterans...