Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday the Varsity hopped down Falmouth to try for a repeat performance on the 4 to 0 whitewash that began summer season. Saturday it will have second go with Holey Cross, this time at Worcester, trying to recapture scalp from the Crusader collection...
Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
...bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...
...book, set as if it were verse (and with all staging directions eliminated), Corwin adds many lines that the program had no time for, changes a few broadcasting bowdlerisms (bejeepers becomes beJesus). But what makes the scalp tighten when backed by sound effects and Bernard Herrmann's excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news...
...Chicago at the annual meeting of Montgomery Ward & Co. stockholders, Jim Patton was the candidate of a large group of stockholders who disapprove of Avery's unbending defiance of the National War Labor Board, and were out in proxy-collecting force for Sewell Avery's scalp. But in the final showdown Sewell Avery won handsomely. Dazzled by a 60% jump in profits before taxes for the first quarter of this year ($12.6 million v. 1944-3 $7.9 million), some of the rebellious stockholders thoughtfully laid aside their tomahawks. Final score: Rebel Patton: 1.8 million votes; Sewell Avery...