Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslems use rosaries of 99 beads (for the 99 names of Allah). Conversation strings, with less beads than the religious rosaries, have no religious significance; fingering them is a nervous outlet like smoking, gum chewing, scalp scratching...
...classes, one by a pin and one by a fall, the Varsity wrestling team proceeded to take points in five of the next six bouts to beat a scrappy Dartmouth squad, 16 to 14, last night at the Indoor Athletic Building and thereby became the only Varsity to scalp an Indian team on an otherwise dismal day for the Crimson. Both teams used Freshmen by a pre-match agreement...
...quail and Florida were not Bob Young's whole concern last week. As usual, he kept in daily communication with his New York office by telephone. Says he: "If I didn't keep my guard up all the time, those goddamned bankers would scalp me in a minute." (His habit of pronouncing "goddamned bankers" as if it were one word is so familiar to his banking friends that they no longer feel sworn...
...operation was that on Louisville's county jail. The jailer came to the first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public credit to the jailer...
...Democrats had other troubles. Their big city machines had collapsed or sprung dangerous leaks (see below). Defeat had accentuated bickering and bad blood among party regulars. Suddenly everybody was after National Chairman Bob Hannegan's scalp (while Bob hurried to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital with a dangerously high blood pressure...