Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile. Seven years ago, the 6 ft. 4 in. Cincinnati millionaire decided to satisfy his passion. For $19 million he sold all his other interests to Aviation Corp. (now Avco), concentrated on making midget Crosley autos. His goal was to produce 150,000 cars a year, eventually bring the price down to $500. But Crosley fell far short of the mark...
...last week's game, the crowd was better behaved than on the day of the ticket sale. No one offered to kill the referees and no one screamed for the manager's scalp. If a score appeared imminent, spectators shouted a genteel, "have a go." A scoring failure was greeted with good-natured cries of "good try, lad." A finer scoring shot was rewarded with cries of "Smashing!" Arsenal scored late in the first half; in the second half, Chelsea tied it up in a melee in front of the Arsenal goal. It ended that...
Calculated Risk. In Anniston, Ala., Fred Walker exhibited his scalp wound in domestic court, explained that his wife had threatened to bash him with a jar and "I bet her she would change her mind, but she didn...
Eddie Doherty, whose Rhode Island State Rams played Art Valpey's UConns Saturday, says that Connecticut pressure groups are already after the scalp of the former Harvard coach...
...clock. He summoned generals and admirals to his office on Sunday afternoon to advise him, then was unable to make up his mind on the problem at hand. One associate noticed that Forrestal had worn a "hole in his head" by indulging his nervous habit of scratching his scalp. On March 1, Harry Truman sent for Forrestal and asked for his immediate resignation. This, say his friends, was a "shattering experience," the final proof to his exhausted mind that he was a failure. He submitted his resignation gracefully and made his appropriate farewells. Then he walked to the Mall entrance...