Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually in the initial days of a flight. It is not yet possible to determine who is susceptible. Scientists believe the malady is caused by the body's struggle to adapt to the absence of gravity and to disorienting shifts in body positions. As a result the brain receives conflicting information from the eyes and the inner-ear system, which registers pressure changes and affects balance. Says Dr. Philip Johnson, chief of the medical-research branch of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: "In space you receive a lot of novel input into the brain, which doesn...
MOST CREATURES' brains secrete a simple substance which acts as the brain's own painkiller. Why should such an effective self-installed mechanism exist in such a variety of animals? Lewis Thomas, chancellor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, can only wonder. "There it is, a biologically universal act of mercy," he writes. "I cannot explain it, except to say that I would have put it in had I been around at the very beginning, sitting as a member of planning committee...
...interview relayed in Morse code yesterday by Quenell, President of the Wireless Club, Brain Churchill, supply officer of the ship, said most of the cadets "are away from their family and girl or boyfriends for the first time, and when the heartache of homesickness gets to the point where it hurts, the message network has been very powerful medicine for all aboard...
Scott said that several times he and other workers have had threatening phone calls. "One time a guy called and said he was going to put a bullet through my brain," he said. In another instance vandals set fire to the door of the store. And two months ago, someone threw a smoke bomb into the main room of the store...
...often seems equally adrift. While former "Saturday Night Live" regular Denny Dillon performs confidently as Billy's mechanic, Lotus, her character soon becomes tiring. She refers to Edythe as "sea slime," but elsewhere her lines lose their freshness, especially in one explicitly excremental description of the Prince's brain. The book also forces Tune to reflect upon the time before everyone's birth, when we were "up swimming around in the sky waiting for the Lord to imagine...