Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys & girls who jostled into Purdue University's Music Hall last week looked like ordinary small-town kids about to see a western. They wore ankle socks and saddle shoes, sweat shirts outside their trousers, hair-ribbons, skull caps. But it was not a western they had come to see. Suddenly, some of them began to hum "Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!" In clear, young voices, the whole 5,000 took it up, and the auditorium was transformed into a meeting house...
...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...
During World War II, everything Comet made went to the Government; one-third of their $500,000-a-year output still does. But now Comet also sells military models to hobbyists. In addition, Comet makes models of hot-dog stands (for use by model-train enthusiasts), football players (for skull-practice sessions), and scale models of furniture and production lines (for laying out factory and office space...
...doctor, dipping deep into his meager savings. Finally Donald's illness was diagnosed: subdural hydroma, or water on the brain, usually the result of a head injury that tears the tissue surrounding the brain, allowing cerebro-spinal fluid to become pocketed under the parchment-like membrane between skull and brain. An operation to relieve the pressure was unsuccessful...
...Shoe, one sign of success is to get into a fraternity-preferably such "Row Fraternities" as Zeta Psi, the Fence Club, or Delta Kappa Epsilon. Far above these stand Yale's six senior societies-Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Wolf's Head, and Elihu-whose new members are picked each year when the junior class lines up on Tap Day in Branford College Court, waiting for the slap on the back from some senior member...