Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Until this-this thing-came on the American scene, I never realized, realized in all my brain and guts, what a banner in the sky the Stars and Stripes have been. I honestly never quite grasped how big and simple and decisive were all the things that it meant, to people, almost everywhere on earth. You know-freedom for every soul among us, justice in every court, opportunity, homes, schools, decency toward your neighbors, fairness in all things. I never realized, as I say, how people everywhere saw all this as quickly as they looked at us or thought...
...Mexico's Miguel Angel, 25. Badly injured in May by a horn that pierced the roof of his mouth and fractured his brain pan, he came gallantly back early this month "with the taste of the horn in his mouth" to win a phenomenal triumph. Another newcomer is Peru's Indian-featured Umberto Valle, 23, who gave the year's finest single display of valor. Gored and tossed high in the air, he fought loose from the infirmary attendants who were carrying him away and killed his bull...
Married. Dr. Peter Lindstrom, 47, Pittsburgh brain surgeon and first husband of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman; and Dr. Agnes J. Rovnanek, 26, Czech-born pediatrician; in Pittsburgh...
...Brain surgery can now be performed with greater precision, using ultrasonic vibrations (a million cycles per second, or 50 times faster than the highest audible note) instead of the neurosurgeon's knife. University of Illinois researchers have focused the beam down to one-twentieth of an inch in diameter-the thickness of a pencil lead...
...give the brain surgeon a relatively dry field for delicate operations inside the skull and to cut down blood loss, a drug called Arfonad will soon be marketed by Hoffman-La Roche. Inc. In hundreds of cases it has lowered blood pressure safely and by just the right amount. Helpful in other operations, especially removal of tonsils or adenoids, is Adrenosem (S. E. Massengill Co.), which controls bleeding from the smaller blood vessels...