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Word: cadaverous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also Bay Rum. Al's eyes were still closed when the first bullet made a hole in his pudgy left hand. Both gunmen fired at him. Another slug went through Al's clothes, made him jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

The Lord Protector's well-embalmed head has not had a reposeful history. In 1660, two years after the 59-year-old Cromwell died in his bed (of a fever), the House of Commons, full of the heady days of the Restoration and Charles II, directed that his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Roundhead on the Pike | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

While their husbands preview cadaver trends for '57, the morticians' ladies will enjoy the Silhouettes of '56, a live fashion show.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dead Man's Holiday | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

Last week, as his father's body was brought to the burning ghat near the same temple, the new King's subjects were ordered to go-and pay homage. Men shaved their heads and donned mourning clothes of unbleached cotton. For 13 days no Nepalese would take salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: The Young King | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Sir: You have done medical education a service with your forthright article on the cadaver shortage in this country [TIME, Oct. 4]. However . . . your selection of Tennessee as an example gives a mistaken impression. Although the University of Tennessee College of Medicine accepts 200 medical students a year, we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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