Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irish-born Dr. Robert James Marshall explained it last week to the American Heart Association in Atlantic City, the steal involves one of the arteries that normally help to supply blood to the brain. Besides the well-publicized carotid arteries, there are two lesser-known vertebral arteries, each of which branches off from one of the subclavian arteries in the shoulders and ascends to the brain (see diagram). These arteries unite at the base of the brain to form the basilar artery, and in a healthy person they supply up to 20% of the brain's blood. Normally...
...right ascending vertebral artery. This sets up the steal. If the left arm demands extra blood because of unwonted exercise, it gets some by drawing it in a reverse flow down the left vertebral artery, stealing it from the right vertebral artery at their junction just below the brain...
...death with an iron bar. For three hours the youths sat around discussing how to split the Worthingtons' $40,000 estate. Then they crept into the bedroom of Richard's father, Charles Worthington, where Joel killed the sleeping contractor by firing a .22 rifle bullet into his brain. Next day the youths wrapped the bodies in stone-weighted canvas, loaded them in the family station wagon, and dumped them in a canal 18 miles away, where a fisherman found them four days later...
Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at the School of Public Administration, was reported some months ago to be a member of Goldwater's "brain trust...
...laugh wars, capital punishment and lung cancer out of existence. The big news about Cambridge Circus is that it thinks small and carries a big slapstick. The manic, unassuming young graduates of Cambridge University who wrote and perform in the revue would rather tickle a rib than wash a brain, and more often than not they are indescribably funny...