Word: concussional
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Some, dressed in cutaway coats and bathing trunks, are dunked in swimming pools. In one ceremony, an upperclassman set a ball on a freshman's head and tried to knock it off with a hockey stick in the William Tell manner. He missed, and the victim suffered a brain...
At 77, Klemperer is not always in such form. His reverence for detail sometimes betrays him into concerts that are flat and dull. He has a tendency these days to conduct with perfection rather than passion-falling back on his tremendous knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for...
> BOB NICHOLS, 26. is lucky to be alive, let alone playing championship golf: in 1952 he was nearly killed in an auto crash when the car in which he and several other teen-agers were riding went off the road at 107 m.p.h. Unconscious for 13 days, Nichols was hospitalized...
When one prizefighter hits another in the head, his objective is to render the opponent temporarily unconscious by a simple concussion, which usually leaves no permanent damage. But a hard blow can also bruise the brain, breaking some of its blood vessels and destroying nerve cells. This kind of damage...
One month ago, after he received a minor concussion in an early-season scrimmage, it looked like the 196-pound junior from Crookston, Minn., was through for the year.