Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talking, an officer's whistle to bring order out of the babel of English, French, Italian and Turkish, and a brass schoolbell to squelch extra-loud arguments. The men before him are top SHAPE officers, brought together for one of Monty's periodic "Command Post Exercises" for skull practice in the huge, hypothetical war which SHAPE wages in the mind, in the hope that such preparation will forestall real war. Problem tackled at the most recent: defense of Southern Europe...
...garden of a large house that had been occupied by the NKVD, the investigators found 113 bodies in ten graves. At the bottom of each grave were two corpses with bullet holes in the tops of their skulls; the other victims had been shot in the skull from behind. Said Grantskalns: "The only explanation we could make was that . . . two were chosen to dig the pit and then shot when they had finished, [and the rest] were shot at the edge...
...Travel Agents. To such audiences the Pope usually makes a 15-minute speech, discussing their profession or aims in glowing terms, but always with some moral admonitions. Afterwards, he mixes with the group. People push and jostle toward him, eager for a word. Some hand him a white zucchetto (skull cap), and he puts it on, giving the visitor his own; somehow, during this hat-switching, he manages to look completely dignified. Many bring rosaries for him to bless. Once, a U.S. Congressman fumbled for a box of religious medals, instead came out with a pack of Chesterfields; an Italian...
...blowout" (wind-eroded area) near Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town, Jolly found the ground littered with the bones of extinct animals: mammoths, giant wart hogs and a primitive giraffe. Among the bones were 25 fragments that fitted together into a thick-walled, beetle-browed human skull...
Unfortunately, Hirsch's life-though it contains some high moments-has a low dramatic intensity. In the film, he marches steadily from triumph to triumph on the nation's gridirons until he fractures his skull while playing for the professional Chicago Rockets. After a long convalescence and some determined hard work, Hirsch makes it back to the gridiron in time to help the Los Angeles Rams win the 1951 championship. Most of the film's football action is supplied by exciting newsreel clips of Hirsch running wild against various Big Ten and pro teams...