Word: brained
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...Crimson was in red. Red was comp requirements, then associate assignments, then random brain-stormed ideas for the department. Red was for all those great inside jokes and crazy nicknames that made me happy to be part of such a close community. Red was for the reminders to go into the office on Wednesday to steal Fifteen Minutes early because I just couldn’t wait until Thursday morning to read...
Gilligan was one of two survivors of a head-on auto collision during winter break of 1956, which left him with a brain concussion and the other survivor, driver John F. Stevenson ’58, with a fractured jaw and shattered knees. His other two friends in the car, William C. Boyden III ’57 and William S. North III ’58, were killed instantly...
...show did not reveal itself as a hoax until near the end. Three candidates, each desperately needing a kidney transplant to remain alive, tried to convince a woman dying of a brain tumor why they should be the lucky recipient of one of her kidneys...
...organ donor was identified as "37-year-old Lisa," about to die of brain cancer. She proved to be an actress. The contestants, who were also in on the hoax, are real kidney-failure patients, BNN says...
...near madness. Standing on top of the peak is roughly equivalent to stopping a passenger jet in mid-flight and climbing out onto the wing. The altitude is the same, the 40[degrees]F- below-zero temperature is the same, and, most disturbingly, the lung-shredding, brain-addling atmosphere--barely one-third the pressure of sea-level air--is the same. In the 44 years since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa climber, Tenzing Norgay, first scaled the peak, more than 700 people have followed them to the top; at least 150 others have died in the attempt...