Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke up in a brawl, the guests scattered-and the host's wife lay dying, her skull bashed...
...Guadalcanal Barney holds a strong point alone against hundreds of Japanese, kills 22 of them and saves the life of a wounded buddy. His reward: the Silver Star and a dose of malignant malaria. For the skull-shattering headaches that accompany the first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine; and by the time the malaria appears to be gone, so is Barney's moral resistance. He is an abject addict. But why? The script states explicitly the physiological basis of his addiction, but about the psychological causes it can only hem and haw: "The roar of the crowd...
...plunked one .38 slug into his head at ten-foot range, departed in a black Cadillac. The bullet, a hatband-guided missile, burrowed like a chigger in a short curve underneath Costello's scalp, and came out at the other side of his head without even nicking his skull. At week's end 60 detectives had poor prospects of finding the bungling gunman before he himself was liquidated by 1) Costello's boys, or 2) his frustrated employers. Costello, his feelings more wounded than his noggin, professed amazement over the incident: "I don't have...
...stuck him with the label the Calypso King, Holder would like to forget commercial calypso as soon as his show closes next month after playing Philadelphia and Washington. Sitting last week in his dressing room, cluttered with the paintings he works on between shows, he tapped his shaven skull with nervous, spatulate fingers and speculated about what he would do next. In the fall he will present a concert show on Broadway starring himself and his wife and including no calypso at all. "Dancing," he says in his soft West Indian voice, "is something I have to do." He intends...
McGough's comic skirmishes in the war between the sexes and the generations are climaxed by a ritual hatred of Skull and Bones-to him a mausoleum in which is embalmed the spirit of Yaledom. His career at Yale ends on the great day that Edmund Wilson hymned in a parody of Yaleman-Poet Archibald MacLeish...