Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anything You Can Do ... In Syracuse, N.Y., while watching a doctor take four stitches out of his fiancee's head, a young man fainted, had to have nine stitches taken in his own scalp...
...didn't keep my guard up all the time," Railroader Robert R. Young once said, "those goddammed bankers would scalp me in a minute." Last week, with a characteristic bit of footwork and his guard still high, scrappy little Bob Young pranced into the center of the ring looking like an investment banker himself...
...must have died instantly," Dodge said this afternoon in describing the rescue. "There was a deep cut over his left eye and the scalp was torn...
...angry church member must have felt: 'God forbid that any clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed ... If he were to preach a funeral sermon over my corpse, I believe that like Lazarus, I would throw aside the cerements of the grave and come back to life in indignant resurrection...
...varsity hockey team decisively downed Boston University, 10 to 8, last night before 5000 screaming fans-some screaming for the referee's scalp, others for one more goal, and the rest for more blood...