Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lucretia Engle, wife of popular incumbent Democratic Senator Clair Engle, who was forced to withdraw from the primary after his second brain operation since August, came out for Sal inger. And Jackie Kennedy said: "President Kennedy valued his advice and counsel on all major matters." Salinger's past association as press secretary to Jack Kennedy clearly was his best issue. He constantly recalled the crises through which he had gone with the late President. In the final hours of the campaign, Pierre's people mailed 4,000,000 postcards, each bearing a blue-bordered photo of Kennedy...
...nation where politicians affect superior airs, Shastri is modest and retiring. Among a people given to rhetoric and ritual, he is concrete and practical. In a land reverencing charismatic leadership and far-reaching intellect, he looks like a messenger boy and disparages his own brain. Above all, he is reassuringly rational. Though he fights corruption, he does so with intelligence and compassion, well aware that badly paid public servants will invariably be tempted by bribes...
Loss of Memory. When Ike was stricken by ileitis in June of 1956, he found himself too preoccupied to ponder the disability problem. Explained Ike simply: "It hurt." About a year later, Eisenhower suffered a minor stroke, which he described as "a spasm of the brain." Said he: "For 24 hours I had an absolute loss of memory for words. If I wanted to see anybody I couldn't possibly remember their names. This passed quickly...
...ground level; and when the program is about to begin, this entire "people wall" is lifted 53 ft. into the air by two hydraulic rams. They end up inside the lofty IBM egg, watching nine movie screens at once, in a demonstration meant to explain how the human brain is just another computer...
...from 1950 to 1953, best known as the man sent hurrying to Scotland in 1941 to identify and interrogate Rudolf Hess after Hitler's Deputy Führer flew from Berlin (crash-landing his ME-110 fighter) in a mad attempt to negotiate peace with England; of a brain tumor; in Celbridge, Ireland...