Word: scalps
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...confront the fact that the U.M.W.'s fortunes had declined with the lessening demand for coal. The membership was down from 600,000 in Lewis' heyday to around 200,000, the locals were grumbling, and out in western Pennsylvania Jock Yablonski was calling for Boyle's scalp...
What remained for him was the fact of painting, the reflex actions of being a painter - turning out canvases rather as a scalp, having no choice in the matter, grows hair. The subjects are only nominal, shallow receptacles for Picasso's prodigious instinct to survive. Their existence owes itself to fate, not to necessity. In this way, Picasso's last show is a depressing commentary on the idea that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs...
After getting off to a slow start, the Crimson J.V. hockey squad exploded for five goals in the third period to scalp the Warriors of Boston State, 6-1, in their season opener last night at the Boston Arena...
...second autopsy on the 17-year-old's body showed "conclusive evidence of injuries to the head" which had caused the formation of several possibly fatal hematomas, or blood deposits, beneath the scalp and around the brain...
...Physicians and Surgeons and chief of the Headache Unit at New York's Montefiore Hospital, believes that migraine is the result of a hereditary chemical imbalance that produces biochemical changes in the individual when he is exposed to stress. One of these changes induces pain by causing scalp arteries to dilate. Another produces a sterile (noninfectious) inflammation of the artery wall...