Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC. 10-11 p.m) "The Man-Eater of Surrey Green" turns out to be a not so Jolly Green Giant with a brain that responds to special signals from the evil ones. It is up to John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel to short-circuit the operation...
Working together, with Strijdom as the leader and Verwoerd the brain and propagandist, the two men slowly rebuilt the Nationalist Party in their own image. In 1948, the Nationalists surged back into power, and Verwoerd became Minister of Native Affairs. It was just the place for him, and he used it to transform South Africa...
...engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced deafness. The ones that pick up the high frequencies are the first to wear out, and as the noise bombardment continues, the destruction creeps inward to nerves of lower frequency-all without the hearer being aware...
...Teach Your Baby to Read is an almost evangelical ode to early learning by Physical Therapist Glenn Doman, who has been teaching preschool children with brain damage to read at Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. He contends that almost every young child has a "built-in rage for learning" and that parents have "a sacred duty to open the floodgate of all basic knowledge to him." Doman claims that a baby will take to the written word as easily as to the spoken language and can even learn to read before he learns to speak...
...that mosquitoes bite snakes made most scientists laugh. But not the University of Utah's imaginative Microbiologist Louis P. Gebhardt Jr. By following up a hunch, Gebhardt has just climaxed an eight-year effort to trace the life cycle of a virus that causes one form of deadly brain inflammation commonly known as sleeping sickness...