Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was skull cracking in The Netherlands. As 2,000 Communists gathered in Amsterdam to listen quietly to their leaders, thousands of students battled the police in the heart of the city and tried to plant Red and Viet Cong flags on the National Monument, which commemorates the Resistance of World War II. A police inspector, trapped by young toughs, was burned on the face with cigarette butts. In London, militant workers used May Day to protest the government's plan to outlaw wildcat strikes. Close to 100,000 workers stayed home, and the docks of London, Hull...
Because migraine headaches result from dilation of small arteries near the surface of the skull, they might be related to the Pill's effects on blood vessels. Thus some physicians never prescribe the Pill for a woman who has any history of migraine, and stop it promptly if a woman with no such history complains of migraine while on it. Others counter that this could rule out 5% or more of the female population...
...unnoticed, the victim is taken to an isolated spot, beaten or tortured, and then killed by a salvo of bullets fired by all the assembled cops. A coup de grace is finally administered above the ear, and often a piece of paper is left by the body bearing a skull and crossbones and the initials E.M.-the sign of Esquadrao da Morte. Sometimes there is also a note saying "I pushed marijuana" or "I was a car thief...
...have to get your skull busted--it's a big decision for you to make, an admirable decision in the all-American tradition. If you can convince me of why, I won't have these ideas about middle-class whites. You're the protest set instead of the jet set. How are we gonna change jet set. How are we gonna change the way we are, the whole country. Like in Yellow Submarine--is there a guy who can walk down the street and make flowers grow behind...
...other politicians, including Bhashani's chief Bengali rival, moderate Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have kept silent. Not Bhashani, who continues to receive newsmen and followers at his bamboo-walled hut. "What have I to fear?" he asked TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, as he adjusted his soiled straw skull cap and straightened the green sweater that he wore inside out. "I would welcome being hanged for my people...