Word: dopey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director of the hospital, decided to try psychosurgery. (She consented.) A surgeon carefully opened her skull (using a local anesthetic), sliced into the frontal lobes of the brain, cut most of the nerve connections to the thalamus (crossroads of the brain's nerves). The patient said: "I feel dopey." After the operation she cried, sucked her thumb, splashed in her bath like a two-year-old. But in a month, she acted like an adult...
Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...
Doctors who have tried the method find that the mothers' muscle tone remains good, so that delivery is spontaneous, babies are not dopey, labor is shortened. One objection: the injection is 8 to 12 cm. (3⅛ in. to 4¾ in.) deep and some skeptics insist that not every doctor can learn to make...
...there isn't very funny. I was 18 when I joined up, and I knew a lot of these kids then. Now, after they've been through a couple of campaigns they're old men. They're tired and they show it in their dopey expressions...
Luftwaffe Pilot Müller bumbled like Walt Disney's Dopey. Whenever his Messerschmitt squadron buzzed over the Fifth Army front in Italy, he fluttered on the formation's edge, a lame duck awkwardly trying to join...