Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lodged against Mrs. Zantzinger would only add zest to the tale. But one thing changed all of that. Mrs. Carroll, a mother of eleven and president of a Negro social club, died eight hours after the caning. A medical examiner found that the cause of her death was a brain hemorrhage. The charge against Zantzinger: homicide...
Occasionally, he gets off an almost Aristotelian aphorism: "Music," he will say, pinching the bridge of his nose, "is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain...
...often put up in the shape of doughnuts or made of crumbled cookies. Last week, after years of tracking down victims of infantile curiosity, the A.M.A. Journal reported that nine Texas children died of proven thallium-sulfate poisoning between 1954 and 1959, and at least 26 others suffered lasting brain damage. Other cases have been reported from New York to Oregon, but they are most common in the South, where pesticides are most needed. U.S. Public Health Service researchers and their Texas colleagues report that "disturbing numbers of cases are still occurring throughout the Southern states...
...were suspended for a day, while the icy run was narrowed for safety's sake. But the rebuilding job did not curb the mounting casualties. A French sled came to grief in the Hexenkessel and skidded down out of control; the brakeman was carted off with a severe brain concussion...
...Leary conceives all learned patterns of human behavior as games, involving roles, rules, goals, rituals, language, and values. While he, or at least his associates, claim to be playing the "game" of science, one which certainly uses the mind, he says: "The mind is a tiny fragment of the brain-box complex. It is the game-playing fragment--a useful and entertaining tool but quite irrelevant to survival... We over-value the mind--that flimsy collection of learned words and verbal connections; the mind, that system of paranoid delusions with the learned self as center. And we eschew...