Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that roars like a giant blowtorch. The roar increases to thunder as the turbine gathers speed. Then it diminishes slightly, masked by a strange, high snarl that is felt rather than heard. This is "ultrasonic" sound (a frequency too high for the ear to hear). It tickles the deep brain, punches the heart, makes the viscera tremble. Few men like to stay in a test room when a jet is up to speed...
This nostalgia for life below the level of the brain explains why so sensitive, religious a man as Graham Greene is preoccupied almost exclusively with the physical and spiritual underworld. Born in 1904 (his father was headmaster of Berkhampstead School, Robert Louis Stevenson was a distant relation), bookish, retiring young Greene finished his education at Oxford's scholarly Balliol College. After that he ran through a succession of newspaper jobs, plugged away at his novels in his spare time. The Man Within, the first book he thought good enough to submit, so delighted the publishing house of Heinemann that...
When it came to the platform, the Communists moved brusquely and openly. The nominal chairman of the platform committee was silver-haired Rexford Tugwell, onetime Roosevelt brain-truster, who in his earnest innocence thought the convention should go on record in favor of a European recovery plan. But Lawyer Lee Pressman, who was fired from the C.I.O. because of his leftist views, quickly took charge, assisted by the West Coast longshoremen's Harry Bridges...
...Party still had its machinery of civil war, prepared long ago. Although the cogs were rusting, the Communist leaders shielded it against the day when they could use it. News of Togliatti's shooting reached the Italian Senate to interrupt a violent harangue by Communist Umberto ("The Brain") Terracini against a government plan to speed up the collection of arms from private organizations, including the Communists...
Married. James McCauley Landis, 48, lantern-jawed onetime dean of the Harvard Law School, Roosevelt brain-truster (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), wartime head of the Office of Civilian Defense, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board until last December; and Dorothy Purdy Brown, 39, his ex-secretary; each for the second time; in Potomac...