Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toppled backward. His head hit the ice, and blood gushed from his nose and ears. A teammate who rushed to his aid heard Masterton murmur, "Never again. Never again." Then he lost consciousness. Thirty hours later, Bill Masterton died from what doctors described as a "massive brain injury." He was the first player to be killed in the 51-year history of the N.H.L...
After an exhaustive battery of tests in the last two weeks, doctors so far have found "no evidence of hemmorhage or permanent damage to the brain" as a result of the head injuries Vernaglia suffered in a January 14 gang beating in front of Kirkland House...
...told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking lot from the pressure of a tumor upon her brain stem and lapsed into a fatal coma. But her father remembered, and her doctor called Maimonides, where she died...
...eventual donor had no thought of her own death when she talked to her husband about heart transplants. Virginia Mae White, 43, had never had a serious illness as she celebrated the 22nd anniversary of her wedding to Charles W. ("Bill") White. Next evening, she had a massive brain hemorrhage and was taken to El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, only eight miles from Stanford. When her doctors said there was no hope, White asked whether there was any type of research going on relating to what had happened to his wife-"something where she could help...
...explained, but "no animal can do the same." To him that was satisfactory proof that "the brutes" have no reason at all. Adler demands more before he will abandon man's uniqueness. Show me a neurologist who can "give an adequate explanation of conceptual thought in terms of brain action," he says; a zoologist who can "discover a non-human species of animal the members of which engage in conversation with one another"; and, most important of all, a technologist who can "produce a machine, specifically not a computer but an artifact that, without being programmed...