Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became somewhat pointless to snipe at the inefficiency of the bureaucracy when one of the most efficient administrators in the world was in charge of it. If any man could make democratic socialism work, Cripps could. Winston Churchill greeted his appointment with this tribute: "He is certainly the ablest brain in the administration, and at least we have one first-class intelligence now brooding upon our affairs...
Umberto Terracini, president of Italy's Assembly, is affectionately known to his fellow Italian Communists as "The Brain." Last week The Brain ached...
...might err. He had raised such a fuss over the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939 that he had been banished from the party's inner councils for a while. But last week even Umberto Terracini judged that he was on dangerous ground. Day after his party flogging, The Brain recanted, pleaded that the "nuances" in his statement to Newsman Smith had been distorted...
...year-old Argentine, who was fired from the University of Buenos Aires by Dictator Juan Perón, the Nobel windfall ($24,460, half the prize) would come in handy. The award was for Houssay's studies of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain. He had shown that pituitary hormones, like messengers from a general staff headquarters, control the activity of all other ductless glands in the body. He had also discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes...
...Operating on the brain...