Word: scalped
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...save Stephen M. Berger of Chestnut Hill from the attack of the armed and drunken boys. When he intervened, one of the boys cried, "I'm drunk and I'm tough, and you'd better watch out." Then they struck Burg from all sides and cut him on he scalp with sharpened belt-buckles...
...quality trade. In her salons, women who can afford to pay $25 for a "Day of Beauty" are stretched, exercised, rubbed, scrubbed, wrapped in hot blankets, bathed in infra-red rays, massaged, fed a lunch of 21 raw vegetables, then given a face treatment, pedicure, manicure, scalp treatment, shampoo and hairdo. But she candidly admits that most women can take care of their complexions with a couple of creams and ten minutes' daily attention. For her own skin she mainly uses a simple lotion, containing nothing but oils and herbs. It is the original cream which started...
...been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle Is Neutral (TIME, Sept...
...samples of the new order. At one point, his guards collared a senile old Chinese and lit a match to his hair. As the old man screamed, they handed him a can of scalding water which he poured over himself. While he screeched in agony, they doused his roasted scalp with gasoline, set it on fire and offered him more boiling water. Japanese laughter and excitement died some time after...
After 20 minutes, peace returned to the chamber, now slopped with ink and blood and littered with glass shards, torn paper and shredded shirts. One usher went to the hospital with a brain concussion; a Red sported a two-inch-deep gash in his scalp; a Demo-Christian nursed a badly bruised abdomen; the House first-aid station impartially bandaged Red heads and court-plastered Demo-Christian faces...