Word: scar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notion that a cross-eyed child "will grow out of it" is a "vicious bit of misinformation," declared Ophthalmologist Richard G. Scobee of St. Louis. Besides creating difficulties in learning, the child's handicap sets him apart from playmates and often leaves a deep emotional scar. Dr. Scobee's advice: have it treated promptly, even if surgery is needed...
Most impressive believer is Dr. Walther Riedel, a scar-faced German rocket expert who was chief designer at the Peenemunde V-2 center and now works for North American Aviation, Inc. Riedel has seen nothing strange himself, but for years he has kept records of sightings all over the world. He is convinced that there are strange craft in the sky, and that they come from outer space...
Trouble on the Left. His victory was marred by a bright red scar. Battling valiantly against the right, he turned his back on the left-a characteristic failing. "I agree with the aims of the Communist Party," he kept repeating, "but I differ with Communists in the methods of achieving them . . . through murder, loot and arson." This soft indictment, the iteration that "in Communism there are certain good things," was no way to lick them. Now the Communists are emerging from the election as India's No. 2 party. There were signs last week that Nehru himself had begun...
...admitted only the most socially acceptable students, taught them drinking and dueling, kept a fatherly eye on them ever after. Each new member (fox) had to prove himself in at least two duels; after becoming a full-fledged Bursch, he had to fight perhaps a dozen more. The dueling scar became a badge of honor on campus, a key to choice jobs later...
...first and having insured the other two; Spilsbury proved that they could not have died from fits or faints while bathing. Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, carved up her remains and buried them in the cellar. Spilsbury identified her by a bit of abdominal skin with the scar of an old operation...