Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then there are individual and highly variable reactions. A man who has had brain concussion cannot tolerate alcohol for a long time afterward. Others cannot tolerate it if they have taken antihistamine or ataractic drugs. It is not that the drugs themselves are dangerous, but that individuals with abnormal sensitivity react dangerously. Steady use of barbiturates is a more predictable peril, says Dr. Meerloo: it makes the midbrain more sensitive to the intoxication of chronic alcoholism, and many alcoholics, far from being put to sleep by barbiturates, become wildly excited after taking them...
...brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will evolve up to or something like that...
...projects a few lubricious scenes on the fireplace wall. Poor Dave, the man of "exquisite sensibilities," breaks training altogether by bedding down with a shapeless lump of sensuality from the brassiere factory and later marrying her. Finally, his wife's berserk first husband plants a bullet in his brain. After what Dave has been through, this is arguably a happy ending. Besides, Novelist Jones has Dave will his manuscript to his peerless editor Gwen, and everyone knows that getting published is what really counts...
...probably live, but the skate blade had slashed through the areas that control speech and the movement of the right side of the body. It had also cut some of the white fibers leading from the retinas of both eyes to the visual center in the back of the brain, and other fibers leading from the frontal cortex (associated with intellectual and reasoning functions) to other parts of the brain. George Congrave, 21, a chemical engineering student from Edson, Alberta, seemed likely to spend the rest of his life more like a vegetable than...
Back to Infancy. But the human brain, especially in the young, has considerable powers of readjustment and a further capacity for retraining which medicine is now beginning to exploit. After a few days spent mostly in coma. Congrave perked up. His temperature dropped as the inflammation in the brain around the wound subsided. At the end of two weeks he could grunt a response to questions, and he was using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order...