Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another plane dart toward him, at first thought a Jap was trying to machine-gun him, then recognized a comrade from his squadron, convoying him to earth. The young man and his parachute plopped into a rice field. A Burmese farmer spewed mouthfuls of water on his bloody forehead. Others fed him, sped him back to his airdrome at Rangoon. Said the young man from Georgia: "I got back so late the skipper didn't have me down on the next day's flying schedule. That's how you caught me loafing...
Matthew Kuykendall landed with a bullet crease in his forehead, oil from a smashed feed line on his flying suit. Said he: "Now I'm really mad." Squadron Leader John Newkirk, who had eight Japs to his credit by last week, radioed his wife in Scarsdale, N.Y. : "There were not enough of them to keep us busy...
Under the Knife. Most of the skull wounds at Pearl Harbor were made by fragments of steel varying in size from pieces smaller than a dime to large, jagged chunks bigger and thicker than a silver dollar. Often the smaller missiles left only a scratch on the forehead, but passed right into the brain, tearing apart a considerable amount of tissue. Those men whose heads were shattered died in a few minutes. But others, whose skulls were quite intact, were good risks for operation, no matter how badly their brains were damaged...
Around a 60-ft. jacaranda wood table in Itamaraty Palace, the delegates gathered to announce the compromise resolution. His face ash-grey with disappointment, chainsmoking, Sumner Welles leaned forward with his head on three fingers of his left hand. From time to time he carefully mopped his forehead with a folded handkerchief. Chile's Rossetti continually and nervously smeared his hand over his sweaty face. Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú clasped and unclasped his hands with a prayerlike gesture, toyed with a large ring on the third finger of his left hand...
Pucelage. At 22 Bowditch first went to sea. Later on he used to say that he never wanted to. He was a strange looking sailor-small (about 5 ft. 4 in.) with a high forehead and already grey hair. He was also "invincibly cheerful." His knowledge of mathematics got him on shipboard "through the cabin window" instead of the usual way, "through the hawsehole"-i.e., he began as a ship's clerk instead of a common sailor...