Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours or less. "Anyone can use them," says their inventor, Jeanne Damon, 40, a onetime commercial artist, abstract painter and freelance knitwear designer. And if the resulting dresses are practically see-throughs, this is no drawback in the age of the body stocking...
After four years of bickering, bargaining and brain-racking compromise, 107 nations reached a historic agreement last week in Rio de Janeiro. They found a mutually satisfactory method for overhauling the free world's strained and out-of-date monetary system. Without dissent, finance ministers from the member countries of the powerful International Monetary Fund approved the cautiously controlled creation of what amounts to a new kind of international money-a combination of currency and credit that would supplement the gold, dollars and pounds that now bankroll world trade and investment...
...Brain. The Smith-Rusk marriage is like none of these: it resembles more closely the 1953 wedding of another Margaret known as Peggy, the daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. His Peggy wed Joseph Appiah, son of an Ashanti chief and now a legal adviser to the Ghanian government. Britain took it without hysteria...
...ninth grade. Precisely because of her sobriety and wholesome appearance, almost any parents could visualize her as their own young daughter plunging into intermarriage. "This," Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal (An American Dilemma) said a few years ago, "is a kind of bug in the white man's brain-that the Ne gro is anxious to marry his daughter...
...list of apparently Negroid characteristics can be extended, since dark-skinned persons come in so many shapes and sizes, from the storklike Watutsi, to the Pygmies of Central Africa. Generally, Negro skull capacity-affecting the size of the brain-runs about 50 cc. below that of whites...