Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will create almost unanimous dissent," snapped a member of the state committee later. Royall's thinking on education, said another, was that "of the oxcart, not the jet plane, age." Mrs. Lillian Ashe, president of New York City's United Parents Associations, gave a shot of adrenalin to the stock solution: "The assumption that there is only a limited amount of money for education and that we must do the best we can within these limitations does not square with the tremendous and growing resources of our country...
...breath, but he did not worry about this until he awoke, usually between 1 and 3 a.m., terrified because he thought he was suffocating. The next year, these cases got worse, and many became uncontrollable, the patients bordering on collapse. Also, the doctors found that the familiar treatment with Adrenalin did little good at first, and soon became useless. They had found a new disease...
Within this narrow time span, Dr. Negovsky and his colleagues slap on a pulmoťor type of respirator and slip a transfusion needle into an arm or leg artery. Then, pumping toward the heart, they give blood that has been generously spiked with adrenalin and glucose. Heart action is generally revived in less than a minute. Blood is then transfused by vein. Restoration of breathing may take as long as 18 minutes. Only after this are the higher nervous centers revived, with the body functions that they control. If the process is too prolonged, some brain centers never recover...
...effect of the movie is not to throw light on a public problem but to shoot adrenalin through the moviegoer's veins...
Butler's proposal was adrenalin to the millions of Britons who are busily marrying off Princess Meg to the dashing, divorced R.A.F. ace, Group Captain Peter Townsend: the government, it seemed, was deliberately relieving the Princess of one great obstacle to her marrying a commoner. Butler made clear that the regency change has been in the wind for more than a year. The question of freeing Margaret to marry Townsend-a matter requiring the approval of the Queen, the government and the Church of England-had nothing to do with it. "Such a matter . . . has never come before...