Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until the end had come for Senator Taft could the doctors be certain what type of growth had killed him. The autopsy showed that it had been carcinoma, which in the patient's last days had reached the brain...
...World War II, the OSS, brain child of General "Wild Bill" Donovan, tried to win acceptance as the main agency of strategic intelligence. Jealousy on the part of military intelligence agencies, and the fact that OSS had to be organized hastily, kept it from fulfilling this important role. The main contribution of OSS was a number of specific intelligence operations, some of them brilliantly performed, rather than as a central strategic intelligence service. It did leave with the Government a hard core of first-rate intelligence...
...Brought on by contraction of the blood vessels in the brain. This often happens to elderly people who work too hard; the stroke suffered may be so slight that the patient is often unaware...
...incredible Communist brutality toward the helpless. Yet it is a book curiously devoid of hatred or even resentment. It is the straight, lucid report of a keen observer who seems to have stored the horrors he witnessed and suffered in a cool corner of his punished brain...
Last week a jury of farmers in the town of Moulins heard Pierre tell how his victim was "no good for our farm ... He ate too much and worked too little." They were very understanding when it came to the verdict: ten years for mother Louise, as the brain of the plot, seven for Pierre for doing the shooting, and five years for poor, simple-minded Marie-Helene...