Word: skullful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use stilbestrol as a chemical castrater for cockerels, by implanting 15 mg. at the base of the skull (so that any residue at killing time would be thrown away with the head). Thus artificially caponized, the fowl gain weight faster than surgically castrated birds. Caponettes made up about 1% of the U.S. poultry output, were sold mainly in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas...
...gets progressively unzippered emotionally, The Caretakers also goes melodramatically berserk. One patient chokes to death in neglect, one attendant is strangled by an inmate, and a lecherous doctor who impregnates a nymphomaniac patient has his skull crushed by the woman's husband. Such aphrodisiac antics strongly suggest that Author Telfer's characters-the sick as well as the supposedly healthy-need a 72-hour cool-off in Hydro. But as a document of conditions in many state hospitals for the insane, now undergoing some exciting reforms (TIME, Nov. 16), the book will shock as well as arouse compassion...
Fighting growing Red influence, the moderates had been meeting every Thursday with Castro for skull sessions warning that his monstrous agrarian reform was devouring the Cuban economy. A few weeks ago, Pazos, Ray and Perez found that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that the game was lost. Only López Fresquet survived the shakeup, and he had already asked to be allowed to resign next month. To replace Ray, Castro for the first time named an open Communist, Osmani Cienfuegos, brother of missing Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who only a few weeks...
...contract what the trade calls "rubber shock" (defined by one player as "first cousin to shell shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones, some 150 stitches for assorted gashes, from sticks and skates as well as pucks...
...this through collaboration or group projects. As Kluckhohn observed in the foreword to Joseph S. Berliner's Factory and Manager in the USSR (No. 27 in the Russian Research Center series), the Center thinks that such an inter-disciplinary approach is most successful when it takes place "under one skull...