Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfactorily. He looks and feels well; his temperature, pulse (low 70s) and blood pressure (132 over 80) are normal, and his circulation is excellent. His spirits and morale are good, his mind alert. In order to keep him "from bubbling over and to protect his heart from his overactive brain," he is given a small dose of sedatives when he awakens each morning. No complications have appeared, and they are now unlikely-but not impossible...
...survival in Connecticut. In twelve years, the overall survival rate of males with cancer increased from 12% to 20%, and of females from 19% to 32%. Chief reason: better treatment of cancer of the rectum, colon and cervix. However, the survival rate in the test period for ovary, brain, esophagus, lung and stomach cancer did not improve...
...most daring mass escape of modern times." The odd odyssey is made in a grubby old wood-burning sternwheeler, built in 1885 and capable of six knots in a following wind. Her captain is a Yank (John Wayne) whom the village elders have sprung from a Communist brain lavatory. Resisting psychological detergents in a unique way, ex-Prisoner Wayne has stayed anti-Communist by remaining pro-female; whenever the Reds got too rough, he paid them no mind, just conjured up an image of "Baby," a composite of the girl-in-every-port, and chatted with her. Wayne pilots...
...southwestern Indiana, public-health officials were fighting to contain a month-old epidemic of encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain caused by a virus) that has already killed ten persons and hospitalized about 40. One theory is that the infection was transmitted to humans from birds or horses that had been infected by disease-carrying mosquitoes...
...nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed by the brain of a badly brought-up six-year...