Word: skulled
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...expand; by the war's end almost 1 million men had passed through its ranks. The Waffen combat units were formed in the late 1930s. It was members of the Totenkopf ("Death Head") SS who served as guards and executioners at the concentration camps, wearing black caps and skull-and-crossbone insignia on their collars. The double S was rendered in a lightning-bolt design that, along with the swastika, became an emblem of the Nazi regime...
...engineers wanted to know how the animal moved and how far forward it could swing its wings. Did it have webbed feet? (Answer: no.) Did it have a tail? (No.) Could its head have been shaped differently from what was previously thought? (Unresolved: only a few fragments of the skull have been recovered.) Each question sent the paleontologists back to examine the fossilized remnants of the giant pterosaur, which were discovered in 1971 scattered over a half-acre of West Texas arroyo. Says Langston: "The project has refined our observations on the way the pterosaur's joints functioned...
...below the ocean floor without drilling. Physicians, manipulating the images produced by CAT scanners, can visually probe the brains of patients without having to perform exploratory surgery. Says Don Greenberg, director of computer graphics at Cornell University: "It's like having a doctor walk on the inside of the skull...
Outside, Mather residents, decked out in red bandannas and black shirts with a skull and bones running across the front, chanted loudly as freshmen approached Memorial Hall...
...Brown believes he has proof that a cast was, in fact made. There are witnesses to the process in Jacob's lab, he claims, and part of the returned skull is covered in "red gunk" consistent with casting. He says there could be several reasons for making an illegal cast. Copies could fetch up to $5,000 from museums abroad. Jacob "might just want this copy for his private collection," he says. "But he's gone to a hell of a lot of trouble for something he's claiming is not important...