Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seconds. Some of the wise money was bet on cyclists using the hardy Nortons and other British makes (Triumphs, BSAs); Nortons have won in four of the last six Nationals. But no machine was better than its rider or his breaks. There were three deaths, a cracked skull, one broken leg. The race's worst accident came when a spectator stepped out unwarily into the path of Clifford Farwell; both the spectator and Cyclist Farwell were killed...
...brain with skin flaps, in his fifth operation since he was separated from his Siamese twin, Roger (TIME, Dec. 29). Rodney rallied well, is expected soon to begin crawling around like a normal baby, though it will be months before he gets a hard top for his skull...
...Sawed-Off Skull. In the end, neither antibiotics nor leeches could avail. Stalin's heart raced faster & faster, up to 150 beats a minute, in its automatic effort to compensate for the small volume of blood it could pump. (The coronary artery, supplying the heart's own muscle was diseased like the rest.) Half of Stalin's brain was already dead. When his heart stopped the rest of the brain died and with...
Stalin was dead, but his doctors' work was not yet done. It was necessary to prove that they had diagnosed his illness correctly and treated it properly. A pathologist sawed off the top of the dead dictator's skull and laid bare the brain To their infinite relief, the doctors saw "a large area of hemorrhage in the grey matter of the left hemisphere of the brain." This had destroyed vital functions of the brain." The brain arteries were hardened...
...civilization itself was threatened by the "Black Man who wore the belt." Johnson, who was disconcertingly tough and disconcertingly outspoken, openly intimated that he was as good, or better than any man who ever lived, and the hysteria grew. Saloon orators cried that Li'l Arthur had a skull an inch thick and drank beer through a straw. What worse could be said...