Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
Darrach paints all his characters with rich strokes. Almost too rich, in fact. He describes one U.S. chess official as a "Huckleberry Babbitt," a man whose "pink scalp looks like a ham in mourning." Such vivid excesses might be well placed in a short treatment. But served in book-length bunches, the cumulative effect is a bit like overdosing on chocolate fudge...
Ornstein and a colleague have just launched a series of experiments to determine whether individuals can be taught to use one brain hemisphere or the other at will. EEG electrodes applied to both sides of the scalp pick up the subject's alpha waves (brain rhythms of a person awake but relaxed). These are electronically converted into sounds, which are fed into each ear. The effect, says Ornstein, "is to allow the person to hear tones varying with the activity of each hemisphere." The subject can then attempt to concentrate with one hemisphere and test his success...
...raised military morale and attracted volunteers by improving barracks life and allowing them to sport Beatle-length hair. To traditionalists' complaints that he was turning the Bundeswehr into the "German hair force," Schmidt asserted: "I couldn't care less whether long or short hair grows on the scalp. I'm only interested in what's inside the skull...
With the help of Hollis's 18 points, the Indians overcame a 16 point gap in the second half, to scalp the Crimson, 70-69. Bill Moore, a Bonaventure forward, put up an 18-footer with three seconds showing to win the game...