Word: scalped
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...Menderes once promised that on the day Gulek finally went to jail the prison barber who cut off his thick black locks would be rewarded with a gold-plated watch. "That Menderes," says the opposition leader in his fluent American English,* "is a full-blooded Iroquois. He wants to scalp...
...pitch cap": a tonsure of tar was ignited on the condemned man's head. Honor Tracy gives her own light twist to those cruel days. She drops a ripe red mulberry on the head of the canon. Its juice is the same color as his own flushed scalp. From there on, talented Author Tracy rarely, if ever, relents. In one word, the story is Irish, perhaps - to borrow the judgment Joyce's Dedalus made of his "all Irish" father - it is "all too Irish...
Twenty or thirty years ago the traditional old grad may actually have existed at Harvard. If so, he cried for the coach's scalp whenever the varsity lost to Yale, showed up at his local Harvard Club only when football movies were being shown, contributed to his Class Fund only so that good old '98 could raise a larger Gift than '97, looked forward to his Class Reunions as the most easily rationalized binges of his life, and otherwise--unless he happened to think there were too many New Dealers on the Faculty--pretty much forgot about Harvard...
...more ominous than authorizing any group of citizens to organize a university-a right hitherto reserved to the state-but anticlericals professed to see in the move an opening for the Vatican to build Catholic universities that would dominate Argentine higher education. They demanded Dell'Oro's scalp...
...Rebel. No such comment could be made about Fifteen. Fifteen is the eternal sophomore, both wise and foolish at once. He digs at his scalp, gouges pimples, toys maddeningly with the silverware at meals. His voice is often inaudible, and he seems | so frugal with his energies that parents and teachers come to the conclusion that he is lazy. He is secretive and hates anyone to intrude into his life too much. He has fantasies of violence and revenge. As much as at any time in his life, he needs patience and understanding...