Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heacock was also brought to Morse Hospital in "very, very poor" condition and with "brain damage," said Lutrell...
...main biological reward of working out is more immediate: the mystical "runner's high" associated with strenuous exertion. Some experts speculate that during prolonged, intense exercise, the right, or creative, hemisphere of the brain takes over from the normally dominant left, or analytical, side, allowing associations to flow freely...
...Endowment for Divestiture was the brain child of SASC, which suggested the idea to a group of about 40 seniors, many of whom had been active in campus political organizations the semester before. The newly formed Undergraduate Council supported the plan and voted to act as administrator of the fund...
...life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparents could never have induced, and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat. I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom. I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing my self-respect in the process. Once my fit of self-contempt subsided, I took steps to register as a sophomore...
...early New Deal legislation; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. One of the brightest of F.D.R.'s bright young men, Cohen came to Washington via Harvard Law School and a New York practice and quickly established himself as the most liberal troubleshooter in the President's brain trust. The bashful, bespectacled corporate lawyer-in partnership with the flamboyant politician Thomas G. Corcoran-masterminded the details of establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act and other governmental landmarks. Cohen, who returned to private practice in 1947, served President Truman as a delegate...