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Word: scalped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corpulent man who apparently makes little distinction between yachting and barreling a large sedan. "We're gonna crush your crappy little boat!" cries the man's wife, as Mrs. Jones skillfully mars the word Kuddle with her paddle. In Delaware, Jones accidentally splits his wife's scalp with an anchor, and later nearly comes to grief against a drawbridge as a guest on a Chinese junk manned by incompetents and flying a masturbating pet monkey from its masthead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Merrily, Merrily | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...most partisan when his beloved Cowboys were lurching toward a 38-0 drubbing from the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards jumped off to a quick 17-0 lead, and raucous Cowboy fans began screaming for Quarterback Craig Morton's scalp. "We want Meredith!" they chanted. Don, who had heard the same fans boo him on more than one occasion, sighed: "Man, you don't know what trouble is till you're 17 points behind in the Cotton Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Don and Howard Show | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...Incarnation. During the group sessions, however, camaraderie grows. A cheerful, plump woman reports suffering a five-stitch scalp cut earlier in the day but finding she did not need a cigarette to ease the shock. We applaud. Arthur, however, still craves a smoke. "I started to eat a carnation at our table," he says, "and it was better than spinach. But I know that if I really get to like them, Ralph Nader will come out next day and tell me that carnations are injurious to my health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Kicking the Habit | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...idols. The first funny thing to happen was my purchase of a $5.75 ticket. I wondered what portion of that would go into Bobby's shampoo fund. With my very own money would he buy a tube of shampoo, and with his very own hands, rub it into his scalp? That was something to consider...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Clearasil's Man of the Year: Bobby Baby | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

...those who are still fearful of losing their piece in an awkward moment, there is a more extreme solution. For between $650 and $1,350, "Hair-Anew" surgically attaches the piece to the scalp with half a dozen individual loops or sutures of Teflon-coated wire. "Medi-Hair" weaves the sutures in and out in a basting pattern; its $1,000 job is supposedly permanent. In one ad, a "Medi-Hair" wearer is shown hanging upside down with a 12-lb. weight attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rugs and Plugs | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

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