Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chink came up and put his M-t against my head and pulled the trigger. The bullet creased my skull. The muzzle blast nearly tore my eardrum out. I flopped over and pretended I was dead...
...meant to replace the iron lung because it is mainly effective against only one type of polio--bulbar polio. This variety of the disease attacks the bulb at the base of the skull where the nerve center is located. The EPR takes over for the disturbed nerve center and substitutes its own steady breathing impulses for the weak, irregular ones from the brain...
...Hard to Earn. Some of Rimrock Annie's settlements seemed hard earned. Over the years, she claims she has had more than 40 spinal punctures because of her faked skull fractures. Once, in the rest room of the Pacific Greyhound Bus Line in Reno, she apparently took a too realistic spill on her head. She regained consciousness in a hospital. A neurologist, called in on the case, looked her over and ordered a brain operation. Some bone was removed, and she lay close to death for days. For this ordeal she collected her biggest claim...
...bones still tell tales. Peruvian doctors and radiologists who studied No. 49 decided that he was once a soldier, and about 5 ft. 7 in. tall. He suffered a terrible blow from a star-shaped mace that broke his nose and crushed the skull above his right eyebrow. This must have happened during a battle with Andean Indians, for only they used such maces. No. 49 recovered, perhaps with the help of skull surgery, which his people knew something about...
...means accepted on faith. Under cover of interior construction work, the convicts wired his office for evidence that he might be some new kind of spy for the warden. Once the prisoners decided that "Doc" was no stool pigeon, they were fiercely loyal. They cracked the skull of a disgruntled convict who spoke ill of the Doc, and once they rushed him off to the safety of a storeroom when a few other cons staged an armed break. Later, Wilson learned that the jailbreakers had intended to kidnap him as a hostage...