Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the aviator, who had suffered a fractured skull and several broken ribs, had managed to grasp a buoy after being thrown clear of his sinking plane...
...Sandy Jarman had had his way, the U.S. today would be pockmarked with anti-aircraft batteries. For 20 years he has agitated for bigger & better anti-aircraft defenses, has raised lumps on his skull butting against conservative prejudices and tightwad spending policies. He played a big part in developing the uncanny directors that put modern anti-aircraft guns on their targets. In 1939 he took over the command of the Panama Coast Artillery, established in the Canal Zone jungles the best U.S. anti-aircraft system in existence...
...thing and one thing only-the re-establishment of free and independent Thailand." The ornate, red-carpeted sitting room, dazzling with gold-silk furniture, pillars and goddesses, echoed with the Oriental cheers. When he finished his eloquent speech, the Minister selected a cigaret from the skull of a tiger whose open jaws were lined with gold, and ended solemnly, in English: "Gentlemen, we'll lick the hell out of 'em. That is the motto of the Thai people...
...left the side show and arrived in Chile to drive a six or eight stage horse carriage, but soon sickened and in 1861 at the age of 38 died in California. Through the efforts of his attending physician, Dr. John M. Harlow, the skull came to rest in an exhibit case at the Harvard Museum. Only regret among Museum officials is that they don't have the crowbar...
...owner of the punctured skull, one Phineas P. Gage, according to Myrtelle May Canavan, Curator of the Museum, led a most extraordinary and amazing existence. While tapping some explosives into a crevice back in 1818, Phineas accidently set the dynamite off and a 13 pound crowbar was driven clean through his skull from jaw bone to the back of his head...