Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casey's resignation followed increasingly widespread rumors in Washington about his debilitated condition. When the CIA Director was hospitalized in December and underwent surgery for the removal of a malignant brain tumor, President Reagan at first refused to discuss replacing him, believing it would slow Casey's recovery. CIA spokesmen insisted their boss was "reading and absorbing" reports and taking telephone calls, but others who saw Casey were skeptical that he could take telephone calls from anyone. Indeed, Administration sources confirm that the President's aides have communicated with the Director principally through CIA officials and his wife Sophia...
...horrid scene: "I, apparently, was chuckling in my cot while my mother and sister lay dead on a bed in the same room." At the end of Little Wilson and Big God, on a Christmas holiday in 1959, the author is told that he has an inoperable brain tumor and a year to live...
...second major figure in theIran-Contra controversy to be hospitalized. CIADirector William J. Casey underwent surgery for amalignant brain tumor and resigned his post lastweek...
...Client Called Noah takes shape as a journal kept by Novelist and Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld. He jots down information about himself, his Japanese wife Foumi and their first son Karl. But the day-to-day entries never stray very far from Noah, the second son, who is severely brain damaged...
...Noah calls into question everything that passes for normal. Extreme situations clarify the muddles of the middle ground. The author, past 50 and worried about his blocked coronary artery, asks himself, "What do I want out of life?" and answers, " 'Life itself.' Which really, for alleged sophistication of my brain, puts me in Noah's shoes. So why should his life be worth anything less than mine...