Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very moment of Mendés-France's victory, his best friends anticipated his "fall. His enemies have nicked him mockingly, confident that they can bring him down at their pleasure. Last week Mendés' young brain-trusters, estimating that he has only a few weeks of political life after the Assembly returns from recess, talked of the impending fall as a kind of political death and resurrection leading to the breakup of the old parties and Mendés' return as the leader of a "New Left." Beating the drums loudest for the New Left...
...body For about 2½ seconds he could see the track as a racing blur. Then his vision narrowed and blacked out altogether. Since he did not lose consciousness, he knew that the Gs had drained the blood out of his eyeballs, but not out of his brain...
...presidency of Time, Inc., and is now serving as U.S. representative to the U.N. Rockefeller will attend meetings of the Cabinet, the National Security Council, the Council on Foreign Economic Policy and the Operations Coordinating Board (the Government's nerve center for propaganda activities). The new high-level brain-truster has long followed the policy that his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Sr., laid down for philanthropic works: "Don't coddle; stimulate." At 32, Nelson went to President F. D. Roosevelt to persuade him of the need for economic and cultural development of Latin America in order to deter...
...best treatment for a faint is to do nothing, but leave the victim lying flat, advised Dr. Alfred Soffer in Today's Health. A faint, he explained, is a cure in itself-nature's way of boosting circulation to the heart and brain when blood is being drained to other parts of the body in a complex reaction to fright, shame, drugs or pain...
Gladstone was the son of a rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted...