Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were: running back Freeman McNeil, UCLA, by the Jets: running back Randy McMillian, Pittsburgh, by Baltimore: running back David Overstreet, Oklahoma, by Miami: running back James Brooks, Aubern, by San Diego: running back Booker Moore, PennState, by Buffalo: linebacker Lawrence Taylor, N. Carolina, by the Giants: and offensive tackle Brain Hollaway, Stanford, by the patriots...
Although it is often suggested, adoption isn't a solution. It's no problem finding homes for cute, cuddly, alert infants. But what about babies who are racially mixed, mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, brain-damaged, or children too old to be wanted...
...Huang explains: "In his later years, he ceased to be prudent. He had little direct contact with the day-to-day life of the masses, and his democratic style suffered." Injecting some bitter personal memories, Huang recalls that "as far back as 1958, I had already found that his brain was overly concentrated. The cerebral tension caused him to make mistakes. He had great, lofty aspirations and hoped to accomplish things in a few years that may take several hundred years...
...thinks that chastening drama might make people more charitable toward one another. Well-if we are lucky. But perhaps luck, good and bad, also has a deeper physiological purpose, programmed into the human animal in the first dawn of his intelligence: to keep the adrenaline flowing, maybe, and the brain alert to the world's epic of apprehension, terror, greed and hope. Perhaps luck is the way that life puts history into bas-relief, and differentiates moments, and people: the way that the universe punctuates time...
...Brain, Cook...