Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb. bomb was second largest ever dug up in London. Seven years ago during a bad raid its fuse had jammed as it tore through Mrs. Alfred Fry's kitchen, then buried itself...
...along with only one eye; the other one was removed because of a rare malignant tumor, retinoblastoma, which occurs in only one out of 500,000 children with eye trouble. Surgery is necessary to prevent the cancer from spreading along the optic nerve to the brain, or through the blood stream to the liver and the other organs of the body, causing death...
...June day in 1947, Manhattan Physician Cornelius Traeger suddenly took leave of his host, Sinclair Lewis, to visit a patient: "I have a feeling that Johnny Gunther will die this weekend." Johnny did die, of a brain tumor that more than a dozen doctors had fought unsuccessfully for 15 months. Johnny was only 17, a tall, good-looking, skinny kid who had graduated from Deerfield Academy and planned to enter Harvard that fall...
...minor injury resulted. Eliot Taylor '52 received several brisk kicks in the head and perhaps suffered a mild brain concussion...