Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steady stream of wounded and dying. Many victims were maimed beyond recognition. "A doctor lifted a bandage off one man's head," said a witness. "A large piece had been sliced out of his skull like a slice from an orange, and I could see his brain pulsating...
Victor Hugo's pen was never still, and not necessarily because he was writing a novel or a poem. He could be holding forth at a cafe, and however brilliantly or passionately he talked, his pen would begin doodling as if it had a brain of its own. "How many times," said his friend, Novelist Theophile Gautier, "have we not watched with astonished gaze the transformation of a blot of ink or coffee on the back of an envelope into a landscape, a castle, a seascape of amazing originality...
...second 1962-63 Horatio Appleton Lamb lecture last night, composer Pierre Boulez attacked the inappropriate application of science and philosophy to music. "Those who manipulate numbers to eternity are all brain--no mind," he said. "Music should not have the structure of other thoughts imposed...
...studded with 1,600 small light detectors that simulate the light-sensitive cells of a frog's retina. Behind the detectors are layers of electronic components that serve as frog nerve cells. They are interconnected in such a way that they report to the "brain," a smaller light-studded panel, only those objects that a frog would see. If a disk held in front of the large "eye" panel is moving in the proper direction at the proper speed, it appears in lights on the brain panel...
...dressing room afterward, Moore told reporters: "I'd like to fight Ramos again." Then he seemed to fall asleep. He arrived at the hospital in a deep coma. Doctors diagnosed "severe contusions to the brain stem," listed his chances of survival "extremely poor...