Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanical causes. No matter how a sufferer may feel, the ache is never in the brain itself. Brain tissue, a grey and white mass of nerve cells and fibers, can be punctured, crushed or even burned without causing the slightest sensation of pain. But the veins and arteries which feed the brain and scalp, the membranes that cover the brain, some of the nerves of the head and neck are excruciatingly sensitive (see cut). Most headaches, said Dr. Wolff, come from the dilatation of these blood vessels or from some growth or injury, like a brain tumor, that exerts...
Warmly bundled up against the winter wind, an amateur ornithologist snooped around the shore line of Long Island last week to see what the scum of oil from torpedoed tankers was doing to the wild fowl. Oil is bad for ducks. It gets into their feathers and feed, makes them sick, keeps them from flying. The birdman was relieved to see only one miserable, oil-smeared duck...
...watchmen" he hopes to see arise, he points out a few things to watch for. One is anything like a repetition of the smear campaign that used radio-advertising technique to defeat Upton Sinclair eight years ago in California. Another is the "tendency of some radio programs to spoon-feed the nation on intellectual mush almost entirely deficient in every vitamin necessary to a healthy populace capable of sustaining democracy...
...effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...
...police listened thoughtfully to Mme. Hempel and let her go. Muttering some strong lines from German Lieder, Mme. Hempel rushed off to feed Brownie...