Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They Laid Him Low. One day early this month, a rifleman waited patiently in the tall corn near the home pasture, until, at twilight, Webb began to plow. The legend was that Webb wore armor and could only be killed by a bullet in the brain. The marksman aimed carefully, and at 200 feet his aim was true. He fired twice again-while daughter Ursley Jean raised her father in her arms-and hit Webb twice again, but the first bullet was enough...
...A.M.A. complained that advertisers are increasingly making exaggerated claims for the safety of continuous vaporizers that spread poison to kill insects and other pests, and reiterated a warning: lindane, the chemical commonly used in these gadgets, "is retained in the brain and liver and may cause serious and lasting damage to the central nervous system." Exempted from the charge: hand-operated aerosol bombs...
...five years, Alan Maxwell Palmer, 46, had known a fate that would have plunged most men into despair. A U.S. Navy veteran who lost one hand in World War II, he moved to Mexico in 1949 to shake off a series of mysterious headaches. There, surgeons removed a brain tumor and saved his life, but Palmer found him self blind. Though he earned a living by writing about Mexico for U.S. industrial magazines, he could not always escape the hours of empty boredom. "Friends," says he, "stop in to chat and read to you. But much of the time there...
...months ago, he had to undergo another brain operation. As soon as he got back on his feet, he realized that if his Discojos were ever to spin, he would have to step up his campaign for funds. Last week, still cheerful, he flew up to the U.S. for a whirlwind tour that will take him through seven cities, seeking contributions from firms doing business in Mexico. As Palmer well knows, there is good reason for such haste: after his last operation, the doctors told him that he has not long to live...
...right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...