Word: brained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning pet dogs into ducks. Long after the spell ends, an eerie residue remains, like a dream that persists in the waking world. Chris Van Allsburg's narrative leans too hard on pictures of topiary animals and foreboding dwellings, but his brilliant illustrations resemble snapshots taken by the brain...
...idea to get hold of the tests and analyze them was born in the brain of Dr. Robert Barendsen, a Far Eastern specialist in the USOE's Division of International Education. "In 1978 lots of Chinese students began appearing on our shores and we had to integrate them into our university system," he says. "Since we were just getting into the business of academic exchange with China and since these were the first nationally standardized tests since the Cultural Revolution we wanted to use them to get a feel for the kind of background college-level Chinese had in several...
...point Sanchez uses the phrase "permissive society," a sure sign of brain death. Living with the Stones seems to have taken its toll on Sanchez--he's already gray--and now he's looking for somebody to blame...
...exceptionally adept at avoiding the meat my parents continually poked in my direction. Receiving protein in the form of mangled flesh and sizzled blood vessels has never been my idea of nutrition. As to the argument of "faunaism," I have yet to dissect a plant and discover a brain...
...natural levels' argument we heard tonight is a red herring," Brain Feigenbaum, a Boston University law student, said. "The natural levels of radiation are not good for you either," he explained...