Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play gets its best results by reaching not across the centuries but across the Irish Sea: it does a juicy job on a London chatter columnist whose skin is even thicker than his skull. Unfortunately the Londoner, like much else in the play, turns up for no reason-and turns up twice...
Hess, the doctors concluded, is probably a schizophrenic of a paranoid type (split personality with delusions of persecution). They note some warning signals: his "extremely primitive skull formation, the misshapen ears"; an attitude of simultaneous submission and antagonism to his father; an "unconscious passive homosexual disposition" and a feeling of guilt over masturbation during adolescence; a self-centered, shy, shut-in personality that craves devotion and spins fantasies of glory but is haunted by a sense of inadequacy and inner conflict...
...tuxedoed old judge bent down to peer at the odd little creature, a child shrilled: "What is it, momma, a lamb?" Unconscious of the childish blasphemy and of the Madison Square Garden crowd, Dr. Samuel Milbank studied the Bedlington terrier intently-measuring his narrow skull, feeling his linty coat and reached (arched) back, testing his alertness and movement...
...once-defeated hockey team shut out a strong Dunster crew, 2 to 0, in the early hours of the morning at the Arena. Ben Richards and Hans Estin each scored for the Puritans while Dan Stevens tended the Winthrop nets, stopping a fusilade of shots-one with his skull...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...