Word: skulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that heavy percentages of ordinary viewers-not just the critics-yawning at such TV sacred cows as Arthur Godfrey (47%) and Red Skelton (38%). Cunningham feels that the Boredom Factor causes "dial-twitching, vacant-minded viewing, lower ratings" and, as far as the sponsor is concerned, "less penetration-per-skull per dollar...
...porridge, and laying their plans. Then they sent it after the son's favorite niece. The child's mother watched in horror as the thing ran off with her baby in its mouth. All that was found of the child later was a few pieces of skull, her toes, kidneys and some scraps of cloth. The Tanganyika court found both women and Lion Trainer Muhandi guilty of murder. The sorcerer appealed on the ground that he had not even seen his lion for three months before the murder...
...hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since...
...razor. The bell was his biggest ally when his knees came unhinged at the end of three different rounds. But still he came on, and Sugar Ray left the ring a broke and beaten man. Although the referee disagreed, a pair of judges transferred his crown to the bloody skull of Carmen Basilio; federal agents slapped a $514,310 tax lien on Sugar Ray's purse...
...dark, beckoning world of the Ardennes forest. And Gaspard himself is marked from birth as another-worldling. At his christening, thunder rumbles in the distance, and a panicked cat scratches the notary's wife. Calamities hound the sweet, shy child-a deer hunter's slug pinks his skull and shatters a bust in the city hall, a truck on which he is perched roars runaway downhill to crash through a cottage. The villagers take muttering notice that no matter how badly such disasters may damage the boy's surroundings, they never cause Gaspard any lasting harm...