Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps of Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver bounded a lean, taut man carrying a briefcase. To the photographers who flashed and clicked at him, he cast a cold glance of recognition and offered the slightest suggestion of a wave with his right hand. Hurrying into the hospital to see Patient Dwight Eisenhower, the visitor was confirming the estimate of a White House staffer who had said: "We'll have a taut ship now that old gimlet eye is here...
Canada is in no danger of being submerged under a wave of color. Of 174,154 newcomers admitted in the last fully reported twelve-month period, only 241 were Negroes...
...normal Lead I, a short, heavy horizontal line shows the resting heart. The short downstroke, which doctors call the "Q" wave, is formed as the ventricles begin to contract to pump blood out. The major part of the current flow is the high, thin upstroke of the "R" wave; the thin downstroke is simply return to the base line. Then follows the heavy, hump-shaped "T" wave that marks the repolarization of the muscle surface; some subjects also show a short dip called "S" (not pictured here) before...
...heart-attack phase, Lead I shows a deepened "Q" wave and a distorted "step" pattern in the downstroke of the "R" wave: the current takes a path around the area of dying muscle. This merges into an abnormal (inverted) "T" wave. After recovery from a mild attack, Lead I tracings return to normal except for the deepened "Q" wave. A more dramatic picture of changes is obtained from the V4 Lead, in which the electrode is almost directly over the damaged front wall of the heart...
Kennedy. Idealist Ford flinches at Kennedy's plans to raise a defense fund, but, after all, what counts most is the acquittal of an innocent boy. Moreover, the defense is already hotly surrounded by a nationwide wave of antagonism stirred up by race baiters and hatemongers...