Word: scalping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence reported at the scene of the April 10 raid is legendary. According to The Crimson, the officers beat students with billy clubs, in many cases causing scalp wounds and facial cuts. Spectators and members of the press were arrested, and students were threatened...
...floor. One of your fellow hostages tries to escape, and the guards beat him senseless. Another tries to commit suicide. One day you too reach the edge of your sanity. You begin furiously pounding your head against a wall. Blood oozes from your scalp and smears down your face...
...roommate, French diplomat Marcel Fontaine (kidnaped March 22, 1985). Anderson is denied permission to send out a videotaped Christmas message to his family. The frustration becomes unbearable, and one day he walks over to a wall and beats his head against it. Blood seeps from Anderson's scalp. "Terry!" Fontaine pleads. "Think of your family...
...disease and who also absorb the drug more easily than others may be at risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, among other side effects. None of the test subjects have suffered such serious problems, however, although some have developed such minor complaints as itching, scaling and blistering of the scalp...
...become a status symbol, like a Gucci shirt." Moreover, the crush of applicants from affluent white suburbs has created a generation of qualified look-alikes, all of whom simply cannot get in, especially when schools are seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered to someone else. And in a kind of ripple effect from the leading schools, both the admissions criteria and the intensity of the marketing hype have gone up at second- and third-tier...