Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questioning about whether or not the bus was booby-trapped for a delayed explosion. At some point be tween the retaking of the bus and the end of the interrogation, each man suffered "a blow dealt to the back of the head by a blunt instrument," fracturing the skull and killing...
...varied. Leading off the relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware of his club allegiance. Says Christie: "Their uniform will never look so cool...
William Butler Yeats tells of Icelandic peasants who found a skull in a cemetery and suspected it might be that of the poet Egill. "Its great thickness made them feel certain it was," he writes, but "to be doubly sure they put it on a wall and hit it hard blows with a hammer." When it did not break, "they were convinced that it was in truth the skull of the poet and worthy of every honor...
...have come a long way since those dark days. Or have we? We no longer pick our witches or our poets this way, but that is because moderns have little interest in either. When it comes to things they are interested in-doctors, lawyers, Presidents-they have replaced skull-bashing and suffocation with more subtle ordeals. Aspiring doctors must first survive the pressure cooker of a sleepless year of internship, aspiring lawyers the cutthroat paper chase of first-year law school. And those who aspire to the most exalted title of all, President, are required to traverse a campaign trail...
...last sound she ever heard was a slight whoosh of air as a lead pipe descended on the back of her skull...