Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happily, in her Rhode Island mansion. But by 1979, he became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections, during two successive Christmas vacations. By May 1981, doctors had declared that Mrs von Bulow's brain had been damaged irreparably, and that she would never waken from her coma...
Doctors had previously thought that the protein tangles characteristic of brain cells in senile patients were soluble, meaning that they can be broken down, like proteins found throughout the rest of the body. The Harvard researchers, however, found the protein to be highly insoluble, similar to the proteins that make up bones and cartilage, Selkoe said Monday. The accumulation of protein tangles in the brain nerves to kill brain cells, which results in the senility characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, Selkoe explained...
...special concern since much of the heavy use of marijuana "takes place within the school setting." Says Charles O'Brien, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a member of the committee: "There's no way a student's brain can function normally when he uses marijuana daily. It's a definite risk, but there's no way to evaluate that risk in a quantitative way." Mild withdrawal symptoms that sometimes occur among heavy users indicate the drug can lead to physical dependence, but the committee stressed that...
Brandeis could also assert his power directly. Murphy unearths a rift that developed early in the New Deal. The Brain Trust, composed of Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle,posed attacking the Depression with big Government and monopolistic enterprises. This ran contrary to the Brandeis )ias against a strong central Government, Big Business in general, and many of the New Deal's collectivist approaches. "Bigness is always badness," became his familiar refrain. At one point, he threatened "to hold the Government control legislation unconstitutional from now on," unless the Administration reversed the Big Business trend in industry...
...Brain Burke (eight), Captain Jon Edwards (nine), and Paul Anderson (eight) connected on mid-range shots, exuding the confidence-of a league-leading team as the Green shot 99 percent for the half compared in the Crimson's 39 percent. Dartmouth outrebounded Harvard 17-12. mainly on the defensive boards. Very few of their points came on second shots: very few of their shots came off the glass...