Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head and also in a thigh, arm and ankle, somehow stumbled 50 yards to the plant and fell unconscious. A striker's bullet tumbled McGinnis into the rye, but he climbed to his feet, emptied a .38 at the embankment, and staggered to safety with wounds in his skull and in his neck...
...sharpest incidents, sharpened them still further with careful editing, and made of them a volume that brings the colonial century almost too keenly alive for some 20th Century tastes. The tales of Indian captivity, in particular, are about as easy to take as a tomahawk in the skull: babies bashed to death against trees, a prisoner ripped in half by the main force of some 20 of his captors, another with thumbs cut off and a sharp stake driven up his arm to the elbow; the torture of famed Jesuit Father Jogues, who was later massacred with his party...
Eleven-year-old Robert Bruce Lawrence of Oakland, Calif, had recovered from a skull fracture (the result of being knocked off his bike by a motorist). But soon he fell ill again. He ran a slight fever, and became noticeably bloated. His illness was diagnosed as kidney disease. For two months Bobby was in & out of Permanente Hospital...
Last week a crew of workmen in downtown Rawlins dug up an old whisky barrel containing human bones. Whose were they? Somebody remembered that Dr. Lillian Heath, the girl who had received the top of Big Nose's skull, was still alive and still had her memento. It took only a few minutes to prove that the whisky barrel contained the bandit's remains: the lower section of the skull fitted the memento perfectly. The discoverers of Big Nose George's bones proudly offered them to the Carbon County museum...
Where a surgeon must work in the skull, or perhaps the chest, their technique gives an added margin of safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...