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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike lasted eight months. Both sides bled plenty. The Wobblies had to do their own bleeding. Old Elihu hired gunmen, strike breakers, national guardsmen and even parts of the regular army, to do his. When the last skull had been cracked, the last rib kicked in, organized labor in Personville was a used firecracker...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Continental Op | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...sympathetic rampage for more than six hours. They were finally forced back into their cells by police and guards using tear gas, but not before 18 inmates were injured in clashes with each other. One had an ear cut off, another survived a wooden splinter driven into his skull, yet another was bound and gang-raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prison Nightmare | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...Kissinger. Still, his [1973] Nobel Peace Prize bothers me. First of all it seems unfair. The prize should have been given to the Pentagon. Following the same line of thought, I suggest to the Nobel jury that it consider Uganda's Idi Amin, who has not shattered the skull of any of his ministers for at least a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pen and the Voice | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...splattered with blood and mud, they fight against the background of a bright orange sky, the bloodshot sun hanging low. The strange atmosphere of unreality intensifies with the entrance of Merlin (Nicol Williamson) who emerges from the mist covered in black robes, his head adorned with a glistening silver skull cap. Uther (Gabriel Byrne), boldest of the knights--soon-to-be father of Arthur--hacks through the earnage and calls out to Merlin "I must be King! I must have that sword! I must have Excalibur!" Merlin cackles "In time, Uther, in time." It's a marvelous seene. It promises...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Blood and Sex and Chivalry | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

...curiosity of evolution, every human skull harbors a prehistoric vestige: a reptilian brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: It's Time to Ban Handguns | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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