Word: occiput
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...Whose coauthor, Reed Smoot, inspired Ogden Nash's 1930 poem "Invocation": Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh root-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverent occiput . . . Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff...
...mind-that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput- our prized possession; its study on every level is most important," says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen. The newest and most controversial way of carrying on that most important study is with the aid of drugs that produce hallucinations or illusions. But the responsible hopes raised by serious and cautious research have been matched by wildly visionary claims. Irresponsible misuse of the drugs has led to both scares and scandals...
...abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy moppet who had died while still getting his second teeth. Near by were many baboon skulls, bashed in from above or behind with a club which had a ridged head (the distal end of the humerus...
McMiller, badly scratched, bustled Vivian to a hospital. She was slashed from occiput to chin; her neck and arms were clawed; 50 stitches had to be taken. Cincinnati authorities recovered the lioness for a tetanus examination from Monroe, Ohio, where Harwood had hurried with all his animals in an automobile for another showing...