Word: sherrington
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...medical dictionaries alike offer essentially circular definitions of it as hurt, distress or suffering-pain is pain. Half the medical textbooks say little about it, except for extreme and uncommon forms, and doctors learn correspondingly little about it in 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...
...Innovation. Much of the credit for Lockheed's success belongs to Chairman Courtlandt Sherrington Gross, 61, who smoothly synchronizes the work of a huge team of expert and highly individualistic executives. At the Pentagon, Robert McNamara's computer-minded whiz kids and crusty admirals alike describe Lockheed's management as brilliant. Lockheed also wins more than its share of the big contracts because of its chairman's gift for soft salesmanship. That gift was developed during the 29 years that Gross played second fiddle at Lockheed to his older brother, the late Robert E. Gross...
...September cancer killed Chairman Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64. who had gambled $40,000 to take over the failing company in 1932. and subsequently gave it not only a place in the sun but also a Constellation. Left to mop up the problems was his shy and schoolmasterly brother. Courtlandt Sherrington Gross, 57. As Lockheed's longtime president. Court Gross had always stood in the long shadow of Brother Bob, and more than a few airmen wondered whether he was up to the bigger...