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...Cultural Revolution, student committees have fired ideologically errant professors, and white-collar workers have searched their bosses' desks for pornography. The walls of buildings all over Tripoli sport huge cartoons, which serve as the popular primers of the revolution. One depicts two citizens opening up the cranium of a sleeping bureaucrat and complaining: "The revolution has not yet entered into his head...
...Director Joseph Blatchford were paired for the Administration in a doubles match against a congressional team of New York Senator Jacob Javits and Connecticut Congressman Lowell Weicker. Blatchford stood poised in the forecourt, waiting for the Vice President's serve. It arrived−bouncing off Blatchford's cranium. Blatchford retreated quickly to the sidelines and returned to the court wearing a motorcycle crash helmet. Said Republican Senator Charles Percy: "The Vice President is the only tennis player I know who should yell 'Fore!' when he serves...
...carefully shaded, to show that the very hairs of his head were all numbered. No uninformed person looking at its carefully lined face and wistful eyes would imagine for a moment that this was the portrait of a thighbone; or of a few teeth and a fragment of a cranium...
...Berlin hospital mortuary. Their full reports are reproduced verbatim in grisly detail that even notes the discovery that Hitler had only one testicle. Glass splinters, apparently from poison ampoules, were found in the mouths of both bodies. There were no visible gunshot wounds-although part of Hitler's cranium was missing-and "the marked smell of bitter almonds and the presence of cyanide compounds in internal organs" led the Soviet doctors to conclude that the deaths of both Hitler and Eva were caused by cyanide. A meticulous comparison of Hitler's dental records and the teeth found...
Anthropologists unearthed him in 1856, and described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as a subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described...