Word: burn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled back his hand to guard against further burn damage...
Specialists in these related sciences have begun to seek a common language to describe the many varieties of pain, to chart its pathways from the burned finger or the stubbed toe to the brain, to assess its total impact, and to find better ways of relieving it. Mind doctors and body doctors are at last recognizing that in their evolving concern with pain they are really talking about the same thing in different terms. Increasingly, they realize that even the most obviously real and physical pain, as from a burn or a fracture, is processed in the mind...
Forty seniors said they would burn their diplomas and walk out of Commencement ceremonies to protest Harvard's policies on ROTC and community expansion. The protest leaders predicted that 400 other seniors would join them if the Committee of Fifteen decided to expel any University Hall demonstrators...
...least 40 seniors in Eliot House are planning to burn their diplomas and walk out of commencement exercises on June 12 to protest Harvard's policies on ROTC and expansion...
...group, which called itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, voted to walk out of commencement exercises to express a "general disatisfaction with Harvard " and, in particular, support of the eight strike demands. The group made no decisions on specific tactics, but voted down a proposal to burn diplomas. They stipulated, however, that as a group they would not discourage any individual from taking such action...