Word: scalped
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...didn't keep my guard up all the time," Railroader Robert R. Young once said, "those goddammed bankers would scalp me in a minute." Last week, with a characteristic bit of footwork and his guard still high, scrappy little Bob Young pranced into the center of the ring looking like an investment banker himself...
...must have died instantly," Dodge said this afternoon in describing the rescue. "There was a deep cut over his left eye and the scalp was torn...
...angry church member must have felt: 'God forbid that any clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed ... If he were to preach a funeral sermon over my corpse, I believe that like Lazarus, I would throw aside the cerements of the grave and come back to life in indignant resurrection...
...varsity hockey team decisively downed Boston University, 10 to 8, last night before 5000 screaming fans-some screaming for the referee's scalp, others for one more goal, and the rest for more blood...
...Elizabeth's problem? In all, 15 of the institute's doctors examined her and made recommendations. She spent hours in the brain-wave laboratory and found it "great fun" to sit in a soundproof room while little wires ran out like pigtails in all directions from her scalp. Doctors explained that a pen, attached to each wire, was tracing the brain's electrical waves. The only one that showed abnormal tracings led from the spot of her childhood injury-the exact spot to be operated...