Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minnesota. "In the middle of the game he was smiling and I couldn't figure it out. I moved the rook to the wrong space and he was just smiling more because of what I'd missed," he said. "I had been sitting there for six hours and my brain was fried...
...while it tells all, Gilbert's final volume tells it mainly from Churchill's viewpoint. Like the installments that preceded it, Never Despair gives little indication that, as his early critics noted, Churchill was often "a genius without judgment," a man with "a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain." As Manchester aptly observes, Churchill and his archenemy Hitler were alike in more ways than either would have cared to admit: both were brilliant orators capable of inspiring millions; both possessed wills of almost superhuman intensity; and both were meddlesome war leaders who constantly second-guessed their generals...
...biographers, William Manchester and Martin Gilbert, look at the statesman who was described as having "lightning in the brain." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, 84, astonishes with a new novel...
Allison told the approximately 30 students assembled in Starr Auditorium that no matter who is elected president, the school would not suffer from brain drain. He said most professors feel "a professional responsibility to the school," and that only a few professors would be leaving for Washington in any event...
Accusing Political Action Committees (PACs) of corruption and Republicans of failing to recognize the need for greater reform, Dukakis Campaign Treasurer Robert Farmer said, "There's a reason people give money. There are abuses in this system...and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure...