Word: concussional
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Real purpose of the service was to protest against the Government's intention to ratify a Concordat with the Vatican, placing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia on equality with the entrenched Orthodox Church. The congregation of 5,000, largely women and girls, closed in behind the procession, sang hymns...
Thunderheads are cumulus clouds which mark the top of a rising column of air. The expansion and cooling of the air as it rises condenses atmospheric moisture, forms the cloud. The air in and around thunderheads is often gusty enough to toss a glider around like a canoe in heavy...
Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock.
Mr. Cochrane was Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, catcher and manager of the Detroit Tigers. His condition, concussion of the brain and a triple skull fracture, was the result of being hit on the head by a baseball thrown by Pitcher Irving ("Bump") Hadley of the New York Yankees. Pitcher Hadley...
With a Cra-a-a-ack! the ship buckled. Down on the ground went the stern with a peculiarly gentle crash amid clouds of dust and smoke. As the still undamaged bow tilted up at 45°, the flame rushed through the middle and geysered in a long bright plume...