Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently rendered homeless, treating the wounded and comforting the shaken. Army radio announces that ten were wounded in the three missile landings that morning. As we are about to get in the car to locate the other impact sites, I speak to a man wearing a large black Kippa (skull cap). "You know, one Arab state attacks another, the Americans and the Europeans declare war and we pay the price. It's all very absurd," he notes wryly. Indeed...
...flesh is home: African nomads without houses decorate their faces and bodies instead. The skull is home. We fly in and out of it on mental errands. The highly developed spirit becomes a citizen of its own mobility, for home has been internalized and travels with the homeowner. Home, thus transformed, is freedom. Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under...
...scientists are busy experimenting with halibut, one of the mysterious giants of the deep and a staple of the supermarket frozen-food section. In its ocean domain, this monster grows to 400 lbs. or more and cruises for up to 40 years. It is ugly too; during maturation the skull of the halibut twists, moving one eye to the opposite side and giving the beast -- naturally enough -- a grotesquely pained look. Well, its sufferings are over. Aquaculturists, again in Norway, have produced a dwarf version, at a mere 15 lbs., that takes only three years to reach market size, rather...
Although membership in exclusive clubs is by no means a barrier to political success-George Bush was a member of the Skull and Bones society in his days at Yale University--past involvement in such organizations has come under increasing public scrutiny in the past decade...
...party. A skinhead named Kenneth Mieske came up behind Seraw with a baseball bat and struck his head "as hard as you'd hit a center field ball," Dees told the jury last week. Then Mieske stood over the fallen Seraw and hit him repeatedly, splitting open his skull...