Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just past midnight in Washington when the Moscow radio announced Joseph Stalin's "sudden brain hemorrhage." Swiftly the all-night monitors of Central Intelligence Agency passed the word to Director Allen Dulles. Thus, key men of the Administration were roused...
...Brain. He not only installed 350 new traffic signals but personally invented a $115,000 electronic "brain," which controls them in a new way. Today, Denver's traffic rolls over rubber pads in the streets. The impact of tires on the pads tells the brain how heavily traffic is flowing from minute to minute, and the brain automatically adjusts whole series of lights to fit the actual flow of cars...
Late Sunday night, in his austere, book-lined apartment deep within the Kremlin, the Premier of Russia was struck unconscious; an artery burst, a massive hemorrhage spread through the left side of his brain. His right arm and leg were paralyzed, his speech gone. The elite of Soviet medicine-the Minister of Health and nine other doctors-assembled around the sickbed, their every gesture watched their every muttered consultation monitored. For some 48 hours, only Joseph Stalin's intimates and his doctors knew the huge secret...
...Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. announce the great misfortune which has befallen our party and our people-the grave illness of Comrade J. V. Stalin. During the night of March 1 to 2, Comrade Stalin . . . had a hemorrhage . . . which affected vital parts of his brain. . . The Central Committee and the Council of Ministers express confidence that our party and the whole Soviet people will . . . display the greatest unity and cohesion, staunchness of spirit and vigilance...
...collection of Goyas and Gainsboroughs and his two daughters into the old man's palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...