Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled as a merciless despot until 1820, when his officers revolted, and he committed suicide by firing a silver bullet into his brain...
Surgeons listened in wonderment when Dr. Irving S. Cooper first described his "ice scalpel" and a new way to shoot liquid nitrogen through the brain to freeze part of the thalamus as a treatment for Parkinson's disease (TIME, July 6, 1962). Now, Dr. Cooper's cold is surgery's hottest technique - a tool for treating a dozen or more conditions in all parts of the body...
...imaginative surgeons are investigating the possible use of cryosurgery in such disabling conditions as Meniere's syndrome, marked by extreme dizziness from a disorder in the middle ear. Meanwhile, at St. Barnabas' Hospital in The Bronx, pioneer Dr. Cooper is working on removing tumors from inside the brain by freezing them first. Already he has shown that cryosurgery will bring dramatic relief in some cases of muscular dystonia, restoring hopelessly deformed children to near-normal posture and gait...
Last week, after hearing 64 witnesses and listening to brain-numbing testimony that covered 18,020 pages of transcript, the jury chose to believe Steele. It awarded him a fat $7,500,000 as compensation for the 62,000 shares of founders' stock that he claimed had been withheld from...
Like a flash it hit him. The word "coffee" had stimulated his brain, and suddenly he knew: the Bronze Rhinoceros was a coffee house! Trying to hide his excitement he said slowly and meaningfully. "Coffee sounds fine. Let's pop on over to the Bronze Rhinoceros." He studied her face for a sign of recognition...