Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ring magazine's count, 439 men have been fatally injured in boxing matches since 1918. South Korean Lightweight Kim Duk Koo is the latest. His body was unhitched from a hospital machine last week and allowed to join his brain in death four days after a left-right combination by Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini flattened him 19 sec. into the 14th round outside a casino in Las Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin...
Council members, originally planned to present the referendum results at last Wednesday's faculty meeting but Dean Vorenberg preferred to postpone it until he could discuss the referendum results with faculty members individually, Brain Curran, council president, said yesterday...
...acute shortage of organs for transplants. Less than 1% of all Americans die under circumstances and at ages that leave their organs viable for transplant, and not all of these organs become available. Transplant surgeons bitterly complain that doctors have little interest in "harvesting" organs from their brain-dead patients. Last year thousands of Americans died while waiting for kidney transplants. At Stanford University Medical Center, about one out of three candidates for a heart transplant dies before a suitable heart becomes available. At New York's Montefiore Medical Center, 25 out of 30 patients have died over...
...ghost of T.A.D. Jones take permanent leave from my brain...
...know, being an outsider and all. You see. "To the outsider, the manifestations of cool may look arbitrary. That's because cool is selective in the way it reveals itself. It isn't elitist, but it knows its own. "I guess it just doesn't know this chowder-brain--statements like. "Cool is the essence of style--daring, personal, rare," seemed somewhat funky in the early pages, but became a little asinine in the section on "threads...