Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article on drinking while pregnant [Aug. 3]: recent evidence suggests that the last third of pregnancy may be the time of greatest vulnerability for the fetal brain. Therefore, even if a woman has been drinking heavily early in pregnancy, she has a better chance of having a healthier baby if she stops. This is not a recommendation to drink early in pregnancy. Women who diminish their drinking by midway improve their health and that of their unborn child...
...With a pig's eyes that never look up, with a pig's snout that loves muck, with a pig's brain that knows only the sty, and a pig's squeal that cries only when he is hurt, he sometimes opens his pig's mouth, tusked and ugly, and lets out the voice of God, railing at the whitewash that covers the manure about his habitat...
...footsteps, devising a "second season" of artificial pennant races that promised to reward bad teams and penalize good ones, and prompted some players and managers to threaten openly that they would throw games if they would benefit by doing so under the screwy new rules. Under a lame-brain plan devised by league officials, the four teams leading their divisions when the strike started June 12 (the New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers) were declared "first season" pennant winners. All were given berths in special best-of-five-game playoffs against the winners...
Opel is a quintessential product of IBM. The holder of an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, he started out as an IBM salesman in Jefferson City, Mo., and has spent his entire 32-year career at the company. A scholarly-looking man known to his colleagues as "the Brain," Opel commands the company's work force of 341,279 employees from the firm's headquarters in Armonk...
...sent to Poston, Ariz. She would, after the war, become the first Asian school principal in Los Angeles, but would spend her life believing that the camp's poor diet and worse medical care caused her father's death, and her daughter to be brain-damaged at birth...