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Word: skull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Lingelbach oprained his ankle in the cross-country and Lindsay Fischer cracked his skull in the jumps, both men being put out of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Ski Team Places Last In Vermont Academy Contest | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...math lesson ended, Giuseppe put his hand on the bulge in his pocket and left the classroom. Out in the corridor, Professor Modugno leaned against the door to light a cigarette. Giuseppe calmly took aim and tired three shots which hit his teacher in the right lung, the skull and the groin After giving himself up, he said he had planned to kill himself too, but decided it would be cowardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Be Good, Boys & Girls | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Divorced. By André Marty, 66, a skull-breaking ringleader of French Communism for 33 years (and Comintern secretary 1935-43) until he was raked over the Kremlin's coals and expelled from the party last year for "fractionalism": Ray-monde Marty, 53 after five years of marriage; in Paris, after he testified that she walked out on him on Politburo orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Angelo himself did not even suspect his powers until he was well into manhood. A poor boy who never got beyond the third grade, he was an acrobat and stilt-walker in a circus until one day in 1934, when he fell off his stilts and broke his skull. When he came to, as he tells it now, he amazed both himself and his nurse by his clairvoyant ability to recite her past. He set himself up in a back street as the Mago di Napoli and practiced clairvoyance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Magnetic Mago | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...basement undercroft where they lay was flooded during an air raid. Until 1949 they rotted quietly in this man-made bog. When the undercroft was finally drained, the effigies were a jumble of decomposing rubbish. Henry VII had lost his nose. A hole in Edward III's skull showed grey underplaster. The abbey custodians had half a mind to burn the whole mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Renovated Royalty | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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