Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given most endeavors. He is thinking long and hard about his options and about the likely consequences of his actions, meeting with a pair of close friends, former Reagan White House chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage. They had their last skull session on May 24, when Powell provided a tasty take-out lunch from Chicken-Out, a step up from the greasy grocery-chain fare he had served at their previous meeting. With each public outing on the lecture circuit, he fills in more blanks in his agenda of political positions...
...colleagues--and the summer tourists who packed the galleries--with an excruciatingly detailed description of a medical procedure that abortion opponents call partial-birth abortion. "In illustration No. 4," Smith said calmly, "the abortionist takes a pair of scissors and inserts the scissors into the back of the skull and then opens up the scissors to make a gap in the back of the skull in order to insert a catheter to literally suck the brains from the back of that child's head...
...broken neck and injured spinal cord; in Charlottesville, Virginia. Reeve, who leaped to stardom in the 1978 big-screen version of Superman, was competing in an equestrian event when his horse refused a jump and Reeve was thrown to the ground, breaking two vertebrae at the base of his skull. Reeve is on a respirator, paralyzed below the neck, but reporting sensation in his chest. Doctors will operate this week to prevent further damage to his spinal cord...
...admit that I enjoy a good boxing match on ice here and there, but dropping your gloves and trying to punch someone's nose through the back of his skull during a hockey game is ridiculous. It just doesn't belong...
...Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only a skull...