Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced: "You have rendered good service; now we will wash in the river and part." Arrested for petty theft, Msomi was spotted as the man wanted for 15 of South Africa's most gruesome murders. He readily admitted the crimes and even helped the police to find the skull of one of his victims...
...into the Calle de Alcalá, where Falange headquarters and the Education Ministry stand almost side by side, were sprayed by police with water-pumping jeeps. By that time some 2,000 law-school students had been joined by 1,000 allies from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins: "We don't want an idiot king who doesn't know how to govern." The anti-Falangist students countered with chants...
...would be a better Professor of Applied Golfing Tactics than Mr. Ben Hogan, recently retired world's champion professional golfer? Mr. Hogan could give his students skull practice in Burr A, set up a driving range in Memorial Hall, a putting green in Houghton's rotunds, and practice chip shots into the balcony from the first floor of the Union. With such a difficult course to learn on and such unexcelled instruction, there's no telling where Mr. Hogan's students would end up. They might even be President...
...Kubitschek," said John L. Steele, our White House correspondent, "sat on a couch in Dwight Eisenhower's office and studied Chapin's chart. After that, in a skull session which may serve him well in setting up his own administration in Brazil, he followed the chart, actually walking from office to office to trace the course that a piece of executive business would take to the President's desk...
Travels (really intended as a political satire) has been for two centuries a classic child's book. This man, born at the dawn of the Age of Reason, was to turn into a madman; the skeptical clerk who wrote lucid prose died raving. His was the skull beneath the powdered skin of the 18th century...