Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elusive Harmony. In San Jose, Calif., Clement Lopez, after slugging his partner in a midnight duet and fracturing his skull, explained: "He was singing out of tune...
...like state prison near by. Sal suddenly finds himself up to his downy cheeks in an escape engineered by two desperate jailbirds, whom he met and befriended while they were sweating over some local ditchdigging. Impressed into helping them make a swampy getaway, Sal gradually gets into his hardening skull the idea that no bad man is all bad. The corollary: some of society's watchdogs (such as sadistic Prison Warden J. Carrol Naish) and false heroes (the millionaire trucker) can be absolutely no good...
...maid, another at a colonel of the guards (neither was hit). As his former comrades in arms rushed up from all sides, Vásquez Sánchez put the rifle muzzle to his throat and fired the last bullet of his five-round clip upward through his own skull...
Power-Mower Play. On his own investigation. Neil Addington, a stocky (5 ft. 7 in.), Kansas-born reporter whose close-to-the-skull haircuts have earned him the nickname "Bones," at first drew little sympathy and considerable skepticism from lawmakers or state officials. In eleven years as state adjutant general-under Republican and Democratic governors-respected General Sage, an old newspaperman himself (publisher of the weekly Deming Graphic), had fortified his post by appointing relatives of many potent political figures to his staff. When Addington started digging into the operations of Sage's elite, several of his key informants...
...guard bent over the chessboard, absorbed in the play, he was seized from behind. As he struggled, one of the nearby sun bathers snatched up an ax, sent it smashing into his skull. A moment later the carefully concealed knife of another laborer slammed twice into his stomach. Finally, someone gave the guard the coup de grace-with his own pistol...