Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another intriguing item: the pickled brains of some former Smithsonian officials. It is said that one of the officials, a pioneering geologist named Major John W. Powell, donated his gray matter in order to settle a wager with a colleague about whose brain was larger. Curators are not sure what happened to the colleague's brain...
Arledge brought over from sports a lot of hustle, money, audacity and electronic gadgetry. What assaults the eye often benumbs the brain, but now all the networks are doing the same. Overdoing it, in fact. Arledge thinks his imitators' gadgetry is more distracting than his own. The anchorman still sits there quietly, but over his shoulder his surroundings have taken on a dancing, flip-flopping life. A machine called Quantel inserts a picture in a corner of the screen, zooms it up to full screen and back down; a computer called Chyron flashes numbers and text on the screen...
...officer, Dr. William Stanford, would be assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart-lung machine; somehow the connection was made backward. For 15 minutes no one noticed, and instead of pumping oxygenated blood into Green, the machine drained blood out of her aorta. The resulting brain damage has left her a speechless quadriplegic living on liquid protein. (And she could live that way for 20 years because her heart surgery was successful.) The Greens sued for malpractice, and the chief surgeon on the case settled for $575,000. But the Government, which represented Colonel Stanford, fought...
IMPELLED, DRIVEN AWAY from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...
...Machines Corp. Founded in 1911, IBM soon came to dominate the market for time clocks and punch-card tabulators. In the 1930s it pioneered the sale of electric typewriters. But its most revolutionary feat was to usher in the computer age. With vision and drive, IBM increased the electronic brain power of American business and then spread that boon around the world. In the 1960s and '70s, roughly two-thirds of all computers sold bore the IBM trademark. The company was so overpowering that the eight major computer firms were commonly known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs...