Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stanky's spring-legged struggle for recognition. He was sold to the Chicago Cubs in 1943 and was beaned in his first game. It was the third time Stanky had stopped a fast ball with his head. The first time was the worst: he got a fractured skull, and the hearing in his left ear was so impaired that he was rejected for military service. Even in that war year with the Cubs, he hit only a lackluster .245. The next season, warming the bench, he made a tight-lipped demand of Cub Manager Charlie Grimm...
come into your home again ..." A microphone, trembling from a slender rod above the speaker's purple zucchetto (skull cap), picked up the resonant tones of his voice-soft, yet suggesting the possibility of thunder-and spirited them across the land to more than 2,000,000 TV viewers. The voice belonged to His Excellency the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary Bishop of New York, perhaps the most famous preacher in the U.S., certainly America's best-known Roman Catholic priest, and the newest star of U.S. television. Telegenic Cleric...
...Korean War, covering the battle from the front lines. The war correspondent casualty rate was higher than in World War II, and Davies felt he was living on luck until one day when his jeep smashed into an onrushing tank. He emerged with a broken arm and a fractured skull...
...woman's system, including the brain tumor that was killing her, the doctors placed her head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...
Divorced. By Pearl (Tired) Bailey, 33, Negro nightclub singer and musicomedienne (Arms and the Girl) : John Randolph Pinkett Jr., 37, her third husband, who, she charged: 1) interfered with her career, 2) hit her with a telephone, and 3) "split my skull open" with a pistol; after almost four years of marriage; in Las Vegas...