Word: skulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week-33 years, 275 days and 18 hours after a chisel smashed the skull of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - the summons came to Prisoner 9306-D in Stateville
...Christoff (who played Philip II, Don Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished with real abandon. The impromptu dialogue was splendid: "Criminal! Madman! You're trying to disembowel me! I'll crack your skull!" Winner: Corelli, who got only a scratch, sent Christoff sulking off with a bloody hand. Boomed the basso later: "He was standing too close; simply to make him draw back, I touched his sword with mine." Declared the tenor: "I was no longer faced with my father, the King of Spain...
...with a hard body check, went somersaulting through the air. As he came down, the protruding back end of his skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed...
...witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable pain. When trephination was performed, the brain literally mushroomed out of the head...
Before operating on epilepsy patients, Dr. Penfield, head of Montreal's Neurological Institute, explores the surface of their brains with a fine electrode (usual current: 1-5 volts for 1/500 to 1/200 second). Though fully conscious (only local anesthesia is used for opening the skull), the patient feels no shock, does not even know when the current is applied, for the brain tissue itself is insensitive to pain...