By 1957, Dr. Lillehei and his colleagues in Minnesota had worked out a method of hooking wires directly into the living heart, supplying the electrical signals from outside the chest and taking the place of the missing natural ones.

One method, hooking wires from a hand-cranked generator to various parts of suspects' bodies, was nicknamed the "Vietnam special" or the "Vietnamese treatment."

"The boy stated the terrorists had hooked electrical wires to his tongue and shocked him."

Some workmen rushed off and Terl was hooking wires up to the canister release valves, muttering to himself, checking color coding.

Klagg had hooked wires all over the cabin, and was fingering special gadgets attached to the set.

It seems that one of the show's writers, Josh Berman, was working on an episode about an electrocution, and along the way discovered that you could light up a pickle by hooking wires to it and turning on the juice.