Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment had been known, have been freed of their uncontrollable shaking and restored to near-normal life by a new brain operation, reported New York University's Dr. Irving S. Cooper. Discovered by chance when an accident happened during surgery for another purpose, the operation involves opening the skull and shutting down an artery in the brain with silver clamps which are left in place. One patient, so palsied for 18 years that he could not stand, hold a book, feed or clothe himself, now does all those things, and plays golf...
...ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned over. Driver Wilder, his skull crushed, was killed instantly...
Reilly, whose car went out of control and hit a tree about 11:30 near Brighton, was suffering from a serious chest wound, face fractures, fractured skull, and broken arm, leg, and shoulder...
...swarmed into New Haven Friday afternoon, accompanied by Smith, Wellesley, and Vassar girls. The first night everyone sang college songs and went home happy. At the field the next day things went along fairly smoothly. The Yale pitcher and captain allowed a run when Charley, the Princeton Tiger, yelled "Skull and Bones" causing him to balk. A group of Lampoon fools paraded around in beanies and T shirts saying, "I go to Harvard...
...France and North Africa are filled with such notes as: "To enable me to force the pace, I took the leading battalion under my personal command." This brought him constantly under enemy fire; he missed death by inches; his drivers and aides were killed; he suffered a fractured skull himself when strafing U.S. airmen caught his car in their gunsights in France...