Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much pushing, shouting and loud argument. Then a fight broke out, lasting approximately 30 seconds. When it was over, six white airmen were hospitalized with head wounds. None of the injuries seemed serious, but at dawn Airman First Class Robert Padgett, 23, of Woodlawn, Va., died of a brain hemorrhage...
...Infection with what is awkwardly called cytomegalic inclusion disease (it has no familiar name) is hard to distinguish from other sniffles and fevers, but may cause babies to be born with virtually no skull or brain cortex, reports Boston's Dr. Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on the polio virus. Some infant victims appear almost normal at birth, but then become microcephalic ("pinheads") because their skulls fail to grow...
...surgery on the body's most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon's skills requires people to run it, and an operating room being used for open-heart surgery now looks like a mob scene from Shakespeare. The crowding and confusion not only bother the surgeon; they are also a disadvantage for the patient: every extra warm body in the operating room is a potential source of infection. Last week, at the huge Clinical Center...
...fourth floor, for brain surgery, is much like the second, but with some added equipment that only the neurosurgeon needs, such as a stereotactic device for placing electrodes at precise points deep inside the skull...
Mary McCarthy's novel The Group, 20 years in the writing, has been signaled by a first printing of 75,000 copies, and for the first time, highbrow readers who have long acknowledged an athletic and logical brain will meet those who prefer the fictional products of female temperament...