Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week and boarded planes to carry them to their homes in the South. Each walked with a fast, short-stepped gait ("festination") and had a marked tremor on his left side. These were symptoms of advanced Parkinsonism, a disorder (cause unknown) of nerve nuclei at the base of the brain. But each man had just been freed of such symptoms on the right side. For the first time, after more than five years of helplessness, each could write legibly and feed himself an in-flight meal. This improvement in a disease bafflingly difficult to treat had been wrought by three...
WASHINGTON--A team of specialists confirmed last night that President Eisenhower has suffered a blockage of a blood vessel leading to the brain--a condition generally called a mild stroke. Although they reported that Ike is "alert" and "in good spirits," doctors have recommended several weeks of rest and the State Department has said "it is to be assumed" that he will not attend the NATO summit conference in Paris next month...
There was a crush at my shoulders and a push from my back as the entire Moscow press corps moved forward. I was conscious of a straining forward in the mob around me, a whispered rustle of notes being made of every word, a great effort in my brain to say something to match the occasion...
Hitler drove him out of Germany because he was a Jew, Otto Klemperer fell over backwards when a railing gave way during a rehearsal, striking his head at the base of the skull. For six years he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but a brain tumor developed and an operation in 1939 left him paralyzed on his right side...
...statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood up and once again began conducting from his feet. He does not use a baton, and when a musician once complained about it, Klemperer shouted, "I cannot hold a baton. Nor could you if you had had a brain tumor...