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...surgeon's incisions radically disrupt the connection between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus. Not all the connections are severed, since a patient might then become a victim of his unrestrained thalamus. But old ideational patterns are destroyed. The brain is forced to reintegrate itself, to form new internal pathways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychosurgery | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...year so knife-narrowly voted not to disband the drafted Army (203-202). The danger was not yet past. But the surpassing danger had been avoided-that the Congress would take action which would set group against group, labor against agriculture, Congress against President, in struggles bitter enough to disrupt the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: God Forbid . . . Such Disunity | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...mass movement in 20 years was turning into a revolution despite five weeks of ruthless police prosecution. As before, being in jail increased Gandhi's prestige as a legend and a martyr. His followers secretly printed a fiery Congress Newsletter which heated the campaign to halt factory work, disrupt transportation, close down schools, stores and civil administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rains And Riots | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...British, their strategy was to maul Rommel as they advanced, to lash at him in unexpected places-and they probably had a surprise up their sleeve. At best, superior Allied air power would be able to disrupt superior Axis ground power and give Allied infantry, artillery and tanks a fighting chance to turn the tide. At worst, the British would be routed, hurled out of Alexandria and Suez, and the Allies driven from the whole Mediterranean theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EGYPT: Attack | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Strategy of Diversion. The concentration of U-boats in American waters revealed the Axis strategy: so to disrupt shipping that naval strength would be diverted from its more vital convoy duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Torpedo Terror | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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