Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Rickenbacker, number one man on the team, was only a hole behind Dick Kinchella when the deepening gloom cut the match short at 6:30 o'clock. Kinchella was last year's New England Intercollegiate champion...
...stolen represents a major part of the organization's cash assets. Its loss was discovered after Network operatives found a neat hole punched in a window in the rear of their studios. Other evidences of a minor disruption in the Network's affairs include a room which was forcibly entered, and a missing cash...
...hole in the head is one of the oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
...best yet. Others were skeptical. Instead of short-circuiting the whole frontal lobe, the surgeons remove part of the brain tissue-sometimes tiny bits, sometimes pieces as big as a cookie. The size depends on the patient's symptoms ; so does the area in which the hole is made (it may be in the temple just above the eyebrow, higher on the forehead, or at the top of the skull, depending on what part of the brain is to be removed...
...young may also pick up a few ideas from such old-fashioned sources as fairy tales (in Hansel & Gretel, the witch is oven-crisped by a couple of kids), myths (Perseus decapitates a lady who stands in his way), Bible stories (little David gives Goliath a hole in the head...