Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uniforms," a man who said he was the local commander explained when asked why none of them wore uniforms. "Look -- they throw stones at us," he said, motioning for another man to come out from the back. Two white gauze pads, daubed with wet blood, dangled fron his skull and neck. "See," he said. "They want to kill us." Just then, the crowd surged toward the precinct house. One of the police ran out to the gateway wildly swinging a machete. This infuriated the mob, who responded with barrage after barrage of stones. Inside the post the pounding of rocks...
Judy M. Chupasko, a curatorial assistant in the museum's mammal department, said yesterday that Harvard already has the specimen's skull, jaw, flipper and vertebrae...
Paleoanthropologists have not unearthed anything this revolutionary since 1974, when the famous fossil skeleton known as Lucy was discovered about 50 miles north of the current find. That 3.2 million-year-old female hominid had some human characteristics -- most notably, she walked on two legs rather than four -- but skull and tooth fragments indicated she was somewhat apelike as well. She fit nicely into the shared-ancestor theory first put forward by Charles Darwin and supported by modern comparisons between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between...
...fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets. Another slammed his truncheon onto the unprotected skull of a house painter, killing him. "This is not Europe, my friend," said a Haitian to a nearby journalist. "This is hell...
...ridiculous?" When he pulled the trigger, the bullet passed through his skull and lodged in the wall behind the couch...