Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a slit, directly behind the eye. When you're shooting from the side, that's the target . . . His brain is right under . . . Crocodile tears? . . . After I've shot them I've found tear stains down their cheeks. It's my theory they shed them when straining to open their mouths wider for a big chunk of meat...
...months persistent rumors have been making the rounds of Buenos Aires and cropping up abroad that Perón is ill. One version: the President has a brain tumor, plans to go to the famed Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, in the near future for an operation. Another: he has an unidentified nervous disorder accompanied by fainting spells...
...Each year strokes (accidents in the brain's arteries) handicap 1,800,000 U.S. victims and take 170,000 lives, but medical science is neglecting "this tremendous problem," concluded 35 specialists assembled by the American Heart Association. At their conference in Princeton, N.J., the specialists said, more questions were asked than answered...
...After studying the amounts of blood, oxygen and sugar used by the brains of healthy and mentally ill patients, three University of California researchers sadly concluded: the same "brain food" that produces the insights of genius can also nourish the delusions of the schizophrenic...
...Born a Turkish subject in a village near the Greek-Albanian border, Aristoklis Spyrou was appointed in 1919 to the Metropolitan Church of Athens. In 1930 the Orthodox population of the New World, a diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen, Aristoklis Spytbu, now Athenagoras, was the answer. He became archbishop primate of North and South America, and eventually gave up the Greek citizenship he had acquired to become a U.S. citizen...