Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hunt is on for the scalp of William Fulbright. Senator Dodd has attacked him. Senator Long has attacked him. Senator Lausche has attacked him. Senator Russell has attacked him. The House has voted a resolution which indirectly censures his critique of military intervention in the Dominican Republic. And, according to Joseph Kraft's column in Monday's Globe, a piqued Administration is doing nothing to shield the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee from right-wing flak: "On the contrary, the Administration is itself holding the anti-communist issue in reverse as a rod to dissident members of its majority...
...still remembering the script, Nagle was trailing Player by a stroke after four holes, and decided to put a little extra on his fifth drive. With unerring accuracy, the ball described a half-circle and gonged Miss Alma Pearson of Milwaukee squarely on the head. Blood spurting from her scalp, she shut her eyes and sank slowly to the ground. My God, thought Nagle, I've killed her. "Don't let it get you," said Player. "It happens to all of us." Play on, ordered an official. Nagle swallowed hard, swung-and belted a grass cutter that caromed...
...under sodden chestnut and plane trees, past grey stone farmhouses and into crossroad hamlets where the faithful waited-schoolchildren holding limp paper flags, white-haired women huddled under umbrellas, village mayors draped with tricolored sashes of office. Disdainfully hatless and coatless, the rain plastering his hair to his pink scalp, De Gaulle plunged into the crowds, grasping outstretched hands...
...quit school after the eighth grade, eventually made his way to New York. Nicknamed "Big Red," he was a gangling zoot-suiter who fancied yellow-toed shoes and straightened his hair with lye in a scalp-searing process called "conking." He worked briefly as a waiter at Small's Paradise, still one of Harlem's top nightspots. But an honest dollar was not for Malcolm Little. He was caught pimping on the side and fired. He thereupon turned himself into a full-time hustler whose specialties were fixing up white men with Negro whores and Negro men with...
...others in an evening protest march. State troopers used nightsticks and cattle prods to break up the demonstration. Newspaper reporters saw dozens of Negroes chased and clubbed in the moonlit streets. Among those beaten was Cager Lee, Jackson's 82-year-old grandfather; Lee was later hospitalized with open scalp wounds and bruises...