Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
Died. John Dewey, 13, grandson of Philosopher John Dewey; of a fractured skull received when an automobile knocked him down; in Flushing...
...inhabitants, 115,000,000 hogs, cattle, sheep and calves from the plains of Texas to the clover fields of Iowa go annually to market. . . . At the slaughterhouse, in the dim bluish light of the knocking pens, a Negro swings his three-pound hammer. Crack! On the steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood, 70 Ib. to the steer. . . . Pigs...
...particulars forcing the State to answer twelve questions in regard to its line of action. The court ruled that only the last question, "What was the cause of death?", need be answered. The answer, from the Trenton County physician's report: "Diagnosis of death is a fractured skull due to external violence...
Down upon the thick skull of one Gottfried Feder in his student days crashed the flat of a heavy dueling sabre. Never quite the same afterward, unsuccessful Civil Engineer Feder began to preach an absurd distinction on which was founded the Nazi Party. He thought there were two kinds of capital, good and bad, raffendes and schaffendes, "grasping capital" and "creative capital." Often but not always one could tell bad capital by the fact that it was possessed by Jews. Only good capital had any proper place in the Fatherland. Orating along these lines in a beer hall, Messiah Feder...