Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes in with barbiturate poisoning. All his automatic nervous system reactions, including those of his breathing center, are depressed. He may die because he is not getting enough oxygen, or he may be getting enough to keep him alive but so little as to leave him with a damaged brain. Or the respiratory depression may damage his lungs so that pneumonia and death follow. The anesthesiologist goes to work with the same equipment that he uses in surgery to maintain this patient's breathing and circulation until the drug is eliminated. We do the same for victims of drowning...
...which Belli was forced to explain as "confabulation," by which he meant that the statements were Ruby's effort to rationalize his alleged blackout when he pulled the trigger. Already skeptical, the jury was singularly unimpressed when Belli displayed yards of inscrutable electroencephalograms purporting to show the organic brain damage that caused Ruby's epileptic seizure...
...vanguard of the working class by championing the immediate and fundamental interests of all workers, farmers, Negro people, and all workers, farmers, Negro people, and all others who labor by hand and brain, against capitalist exploitation and oppression. We champion these immediate aims both because the gains made in these fights will improve the lot of the people affected and because they lay a basis for further successful struggles against exploitation, war, racism, and dehumanization. We disagree with other radical left organizations who believe the road to socialism is based on defeats or, at best, Pyrrhic victories. Such defeats...
...bloody man dead yet?" cried the distraught wife of Dylan Thomas as she rushed into a Manhattan hospital where the poet lay stricken with a "massive alcoholic insult to the brain." The answer is no. Twelve years after his death, even people who think poetry is what appears on greeting cards have heard the legend that the wild Welsh wonderboy was the greatest lush, lecher, and lyric poet produced in this century by the English-speaking world...
...March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...