Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety belt could have prevented every single human injury in that case...
...place for a merciful jailer was La Rotunda, which specialized in El Benemerito's two favorite brands of torture: the tortol, a rope knotted and tightened about the victim's forehead until his skull cracked; the cepo, in which a rifle, tied under his knees with a rope looped around his neck, was jumped on until the vertebrae parted...
Exponent of the penholder grip and possessor of the fastest forehead in University table tennis, Jack I. Levin '40 won the Ping Pong championship yesterday at Barry Cowle's shop. Levin downed Pong stylist William W. Maish '40 in a bruising encounter which lasted over an hour...
...notable for sinewy, flexible composition and color, a sort of high-spirited withdrawal from both cynicism and enthusiasm. Some of the small figures are minutely painted but faces seem to bore him; they are indicated by a few haphazard strokes, or simply by highlights on forehead and chin...
...Love's case was now in the hands of a medical commission, in the seventh day of her self-induced stupor four newsreel cameras were set up in the jail hospital and one of the original psychiatrists had another try at awakening the prisoner. Psychiatrist Marcus stroked her forehead, tickled her mastoids, then murmured into her ear: "I'm coming in. Here I come. I'm knocking. Here I come." He turned to the cameramen. "She will awaken in less than a minute. . . . She is awake! Come, come, Helen! Speak up! Do you recognize...