Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind...
...Cambridge police have been called in to investigate the brutal assault upon Kenneth King. 25-year-old graduate of the University of California, by two unidentified men. King is now resting at Stillman Infirmary with a broken jaw and head bruises, though he did not suffer a fractured skull as was at first feared...
...public's favorite painting at both museums is a religious figure. One painting is as still as death; the other crackles with fiery life. Some 500,000 St. Louisans visit their museum annually, and their particular pride & joy is Francisco de Zurbaran's Monk with a Skull, which cost only $3,000 in 1941. The pink-stuccoed De Young Museum, in beautiful Golden Gate Park, draws a million people a year; their favorite, judging by reproduction sales, is El Greco's stormy St. John the Baptist...
...work at a San Gabriel, Calif, supermarket, saw a frightening apparition climb out of an automobile at the rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...
...because once or twice before his death, neighbors said they heard him quarreling with someone in his room. He lived alone. Police examiners had found a brain hemmorhage and asked the department whether it could have been caused by violence. But there was no injury to the scalp or skull of the dead man, and the hemmorhage was deep within the brain. To the department, it was clearly a natural death, caused by the internal hemmorhage...