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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to reach down and put something that was caught on the side into the back of the truck, when he lost his balance, missed with his hand and careened off the back, landing right down on his skull," said Canaday resident Joseph Howard '89, who reported the accident to Harvard University Police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trash Collector Falls off Truck Injures Self | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...modernist solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. There are some fetching small touches: off to one side is an ersatz ice ruin and a skull-shaped ice cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Form Follows Fantasy | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me." All three participants in this ritual are fully clothed. Offred knows that if a child is conceived and born healthy, not an Unbaby or a "shredder," the wife will raise it. She endures these ordeals as best she can: "One detaches oneself. One describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repressions of a New Day the Handmaid's Tale | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...coats and cut them down. Castellano and Belotti each caught six bullets in the head and torso. As two of the gunmen ran down 46th Street toward a getaway car, the third spoke briefly into a walkie-talkie and then coolly fired a coup de grace into Castellano's skull. It took all of 30 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter on 46th Street | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most modern cartooning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tracing the Underground Stream | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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