Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wednesdays and Sundays at the Bow and Arrow (on Bow St., just off Mass. Ave.) mean cheap pitchers of cheap beer, quite simply the cheapest place in the neighborhood to kill those brain cells and get really sick. The rest of the week features different specials, though the crowd is a little rougher. The jukebox, which plays horrible heavy metal music, is loud, but liquor comes first, and everyone there is dedicated to its consumption in large quantities...
...therefore apprehensive last May 17 as she boarded the eight-seat Hawker Siddeley jet of AMF, the sports-equipment and industrial-technology manufacturer, for a trip from Houston to Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Two years ago, Janszen underwent surgery in Methodist Hospital to remove a malignant brain tumor, and she was returning from Houston after chemotherapy treatments. AMF Chairman W. Thomas York, who was in Houston for business meetings, was giving her a free lift on the company plane. The in-flight accommodations delighted Janszen. Said she: "Everyone was wonderful. They served us food and drinks...
...husband has been in constant pain with cancer of the lung, which has spread to the bones, the spinal column and the brain. Perhaps some of the people who are opposed to giving heroin should have to watch a person suffering day after day. I have watched my husband die by inches...
...adults more severely than children, most people seemed to suffer through the rash, high fever, sore throat and painful joints without ill effect. But increasingly, doctors have realized that varicella contains a variety of hidden threats. Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome. It can also be life-threatening to children taking immune-suppressing anticancer drugs. According to Government estimates, chickenpox-related illness leads to 100 deaths and 4,500 hospitalizations every year...
...fulfillment of a creative spirit that burns too hot to contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine and heroin that had swollen his brain and bloated his heart but of all these bad dreams...