Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot-tall doll will retail for $19.95, Hudson says, but the make-over cannot be finished in time for Christmas. In the South Korean factory where the unsold Ollies languish, workers will refit the doll with a new Gorbachev head, complete with the famous wine-stain birthmark on the scalp. The Marine uniform will be replaced by a stylish Italian suit. The clothes will be be padded to mimic the Soviet leader's bulky physique. From the neck down, the plastic Gorbachev is actually a knockoff of Ken, the Barbie doll's popular boyfriend...
...second referee, a body builder with a shaved head, is sitting bolt upright, like a naughty choirboy, at the other end of the table. The stage lights glisten off his scalp. The audience is shouting wildly now "Smoke him! Smoke him! Top roll!" Teresa has crept up to the stage. She kneels only a few feet from her brother and begins screaming encouragement...
...when no elective surgery was planned. To assure that there would be enough skin to cover the anticipated 5-in. by 6-in. opening at the back of each baby's head, Plastic Surgeon Craig Dufresne had flown to Ulm in the spring and inserted small balloons under their scalp; these were gradually inflated with saline until a growth the size of a small cantaloupe protruded from the babies' skulls...
...surgery consumed 60 pints of blood products, dozens of times the babies' normal volume. Worried about rapid swelling of the brain tissue, the team decided to wait for a later date to install titanium plates custom designed to help close the babies' skulls. In addition, there was not enough scalp to cover both infants' heads; Benjamin's was therefore temporarily closed with surgical mesh...
Harvard was the 39th scalp for UND, breaking the NCAA mark established by the 1984-'85 Michigan State edition...