Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time came early this year, when it became apparent that Clair Engle, even then dying of brain cancer, would not be able to run for reelection. A struggle developed between California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown and Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, speaker of the state assembly and California's most power-conscious Democrat. Brown wanted State Controller Alan Cranston to take over Engle's candidacy. Unruh wanted anyone Brown did not want. First, he persuaded State Attorney General Stanley Mosk to run in the Democratic primary. But Brown, in his turn, persuaded Mosk to withdraw. Big Daddy...
...patient's nose and mouth. But since technology has taken over, today's operating theaters contain surgical teams numbering a dozen or more specialists controlling batteries of instruments from heart-lung machines and artificial kidneys to monitoring devices recording every thing from pulse and breathing to brain waves...
...middle class might be better off if the system simply did not exist, even if they then had no formal schooling at all." As for the people who run American education, Goodman says, "the goal of the school monks (a vested intellectual class) is a progressive regimentation and brain washing, on scientific principles, directly towards a facism-of-the-center...
...only Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, rose to a level of sustained epigram. "Even the Germans flinch," he said, "at Sen. Goldwater's mixture of the big stick, the large mouth and the small brain...
...Brain freshmen salted the Crimson's wounds by scoring a one-point victory ever the Harvard yearlings...