Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hatfield-McCoy feuds of the Pine Mountains of Kentucky 50 years ago, son of famed Anderson (''Devil Anse") Hatfield (died 1921, past 80), cousin of West Virginia's Senator Henry Drury Hatfield; of a brain ailment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was said to have been fired at 300 times, hit once...
...where occurred the explosion that killed ten persons. Last week before the Supreme Justices he swore that he had seen neither of them there, that, in fact, he was not sure if he had really witnessed the bombing at all, so muddled were truth and falsehood in his clouded brain. He charged that the San Francisco police had coached him to identify Mooney and Billings as the bombers, that Charles M. Fickert, the prosecuting attorney, had influenced his testimony, had promised him a "large slice" of the $17,500 reward in return for damning evidence...
...moment of tentative jabbing. Singer lashed out with a left hook and knocked the champion down. At the count of three Mandell got up. Singer knocked him down again and Mandell stayed on the canvas while the timekeeper's mallet thumped seven times. Again he got up, his brain dead now. He wavered backward helplessly while Singer, groping wildly for a decisive punch, hit him again and again, finally knocked him unconscious with a left and right and was proclaimed the new world's champion. Time...
These symptoms are also those of alcoholic and other drug intoxications, inflammation of the brain, tuberculosis meningitis and several other diseases. A blow on the head may cause them...
...toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain. With the cigar still clenched in his teeth, the form sheet still clutched in his hand, the short, stocky man plunged forward on his face, dead. The killer leaped over the body, ran through the stupefied crowd, flung away the gun and a black silk left-hand glove (anti-finger...