Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rommel's own time was almost up. On July 17, 1944, a strafing Allied fighter-bomber caught his staff car on a back road in Normandy and sent it spinning out of control. Physically tough, Rommel recovered from a triple fracture of the skull. But during the convalescence, Hitler had been tracking down everyone suspected of being in on the plot. He gave Rommel his choice of a trial or suicide. Rommel chose poison, and Hitler gave him a hero's funeral. The question Biographer Young never answers is how his shining hero could stomach the Nazi program...
...press" is what White House aides call the skull-practice sessions they hold with the President, trying to anticipate newsmen's questions and how to answer them. For Harry Truman's first press conference since the news turned bad in Korea, they figured that the big question would be: What about the Republicans' demand for Dean Acheson's head...
District Attorney George A. Thompson announced yesterday that he will conduct an inquest "sometime next week" into the cause of death of Jeremiah Brickman 2L. Brickman died October 28 fom a sub-dural homorrhage and a skull fracture supposedly received October...
...Skull, Lip & Palate. To test his theory, Dr. Ingalls and colleagues at Harvard's School of Public Health took 300 mice in batches of 20, subjected them to oxygen lack (artificial "high altitude") for five hours on certain days of their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...
...extra-curricular activities more or less apart from personal worth or intellectual achievement," says a housemaster. "Success for the sake of success is blowing up an artificial coin. Harvard is a good step above Yale and Princeton in university maturity." President A. Whitney Griswold, who once turned down a Skull and Bones bid to become Wolf's Head, agrees. "We could learn much from Harvard's independence," he says. "But the administration is like a cork floating in a whirlpool. It can't change this tradition...