Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first brain cases, etc. were really interesting. The first one had a bullet enter the top of his head and go three inches into his brain. I trephined a huge opening in his skull, opened up the dura mater, washed out a lot of shattered brains and put in a vaseline gauze drain. That night we had to move and took him along with us to a bungalow on a hill. Every time bombers came over, this patient got up and ran half a mile. After five days, during which he had no fever and was walking around everywhere-drain...
...Most famed of Mount Athos' religious relics: the camel-hair girdle which legend says the Virgin gave to doubting Thomas; pieces of the True Cross; the skull of St. Basil the Great; the brains of St. John the Baptist; the three gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense and myrrh...
Ever since it was founded in 1869, Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
...museum has its rhino skull at last. It was found amid a heap of dusty bones in the Museum's attic, where it has lain since...
...Door Shuts. Arrest came to Author Koestler with the words "Hands up!", and he learned how it feels to have a revolver chilling the back of one's neck. Near the base of his skull he felt "a faint itching, a sort of sucking void, not entirely unpleasant." At the police station his hypodermic needles and morphine tablets (for suicide) and his golf stockings (he wore them because he dislikes garters) caused a minor sensation. He was registered as wearing women's stockings. Then the cell door slammed shut. Koestler's description of what happens to prisoners...