Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite what doctors called "minimal but hopeful improvement" for Press Secretary James S. Brady, a substantive prognosis for the White House aide--who was shot through the forehead by a bullet that apparently exploded in the right lobe of his brain--may not become apparent for a year...
...Brain, Cook...
Such missteps, while often howlingly funny to ignorami like us, are deadly serious concerns to psychologists and linguists. Victoria Fromkin of the linguistics department at U.C.L.A. regards slips of the tongue as clues to how the brain stores and articulates language. She believes that thought is placed by the brain into a grammatical framework before it is expressed-this in spite of the fact that she works with college students. A grammatical framework was part of Walter Annenberg's trouble when, as the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was asked by the Queen how he was settling...
...skates and laughed with a group of friends after a lively evening at Detroit's Wheels Disco Roller Center. A 16-year-old black boy watched the group go by and squeezed the trigger of his stolen .32-cal. handgun. Keisha fell to the sidewalk, a bullet in her brain, and died a few days later. The boy has not explained to the police why he shot at the happy party...
...Brain, Cook...