Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remains were found last Monday in a clump of bushes near the Cambridge Cemetery. She disappeared last July 4, after leaving home to pick wildflowers. So far, it has been reported that a fracture was found at the base of her skull. Miss Freuder gave lessons in German to Radcliffe students...
...Lovett was born in Texas, the son of Robert Scott Lovett, general counsel and then president of Union Pacific. Young Bob left Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, Skull & Bones) during his third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction-and there you were...
Workmen digging drains in the village of Buxiéres-les-Froncles, a hundred-odd miles from Paris, last week uncovered the bones of five men, each with his skull cracked, each wrapped in the shreds of a long-outmoded uniform. The mayor, the local schoolteacher and five policemen investigated the strange discovery, got a thorough explanation from the village's oldest inhabitant, 91-year-old Emilie Guillaumot. Her story...
...Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 715 youngsters out of the city's 6,000 elementary-school children trooped back to classes last week with their heads covered by white skull caps. After twelve months of battle, the "Soo" is winning its fight against an epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp) among its youngsters (TIME, Nov. 3), but has still not been able to stamp out the stubborn disease...
...Army evacuation hospital near Seoul. The faithful medics had brought him down from his bloody hill by litter jeep, taken him to a mobile field hospital where a helicopter whirled him off for neurosurgery at the evacuation hospital. The surgeons deftly chipped away some of the skull, carefully picked and washed the dirt, bone splinters and hair from the missile track in his brain, and sewed him up again. The splinter itself, about five milimeters square, was left untouched; to remove it would have meant damaging unharmed tissue, and experience has shown that it will soon be covered with scar...