Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An hour of music and patter, including a Hope-ful sketch called "Bird Brain of Alcatraz," with Guests Jack Benny, Ethel Merman and Bobby Darin...
...century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
...acters. Severed heads thudded regularly to the Grand Guignol boards, bit players were cooked in acid, and one character regularly had her face pushed down onto a red-hot stove, where it sizzled deliciously. In a great favorite called The Laboratory of Hallucinations, a surgeon operated on the brain of his wife's lover, pinching here, clamping there, until he had turned the fellow utterly mad. The patient then got up off the table and drove a chisel through the doctor's forehead. Audiences used to faint, shriek, and vomit in the alley outside the theater. One night...
...League. It also secured a 6-3 season for the Crimson, and its third Big Three crown in four years. And as J. Bennington Peers III has shrewdly noted, it's the Big Three title that really counts.Yale halfback JUD CALKINS (25) misses a short pass from Brain Rapp as PAT YOUNG (87), HOBIE ARMSTRONG (40) and DAVE STRINGER converge on him. On the next play, Yale tried a fake punt, but their receiver was ineligible...
With Colgate leading 14-0 in the last quarter, the Elis surged from behind to gain their second tie of the season. Quarterback Brain Rapp led the Blue's two touchdown drives...