Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends...
...Gaievskaya theory, when heart stoppage cuts off the blood supply, the brain can no longer get oxygen to burn sugar for its energy. So it switches to a cruder, less efficient way of breaking down sugar without blood-borne oxygen (anaerobic glycolysis) to extract whatever energy it can. This emergency system will work for about six minutes. If the body is revived during this time, the brain makes a gradual transition, taking half an hour, back to using oxygen...
Duskin's only rule is that students and teachers must keep him "impressed." One result is ding-dong trade in the attic library, where lights often burn all night. Says one teacher of the Duskin system: "With a cat like that staring down, you know you can talk. It clears the throat...
Last week Dr. Russek described the case of an upstate New York electrician who lost his left arm and suffered massive scarring in an electrical burn last year. The patient, 38, felt that his phantom left arm was doubled behind him, that the hand was numb, and that every now and then electric shocks coursed up and down the arm, with sparks snapping off his fingertips...
...museum, his widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, was more concerned about his literary monument. Spending what may be her last weeks at their longtime Cuban home, Mrs. Hemingway, as per her husband's request, destroyed personal papers, culled his "hundreds of thousands of typewritten pages" for marginal notes like "burn this" or "this is pretty good" as a guide to what to publish and what to let perish. Among the manuscripts that Mary Hemingway may or may not ever release: The Dangerous Summer, a chronicle of the 1959 Spanish bullfighting season excerpted last year in LIFE; recollections of the literary...