Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a busy street can build a feeling of worthlessness in their offspring. Children often lack the capacity to see the wisdom of a parental order. The child knows only that he or she is in the wrong; this develops into a permanent "recording" in the brain that will be played over and over through life...
There is no shortage of old wives' tales about the virtues of eating fish: it is "brain food," according to legend, and cod-liver oil is a cure for all that ails. The wives may have been onto something. Eating a little fish a day may indeed keep the doctor away, particularly the cardiologist. That is the implication of three new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved, the better," or, "If there is any reason in the world why you are where you are and who you are on this day, the reason...
...autopsy report was clear: Andries Raditsela, 29, died of a brain ) hemorrhage "consistent with a blow or a fall." What the report did not say was that Raditsela, a prominent black South African union leader, had died a day after his release from police custody last week. He was not the only victim of apparent official violence. Later in the week, South African police confirmed that another black activist, Student Leader Sipho Mutsi, 20, had died after suffering "convulsions" while undergoing police interrogation. In Mutsi's case, the autopsy report noted that death could have been caused by "a blow...
There are certain words that English ought to have but does not. One is a word for the opposite of memory. Oblivion is not quite it. Forgettery? That swampy region in the southland of the brain where everything we have forgotten now lies, overgrown with kudzu, something like an enormous automobile graveyard...