Word: skulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morrison was taken to Heaton Hospital, Montpolier, where an emergency operation was performed. His wife, a graduate nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, assisted in the operation. He died of a fractured skull at 6 p.m., three and one-half hours after the accident occurred...
...frequently found sanctuary from the King's police in Dedijer's house. In the terrible wartime days as a partisan fighter against the Nazis, Dedijer watched his first wife die in combat at his side, and was so shot up himself that a large part of his skull is surgical silver. After the war he edited the official party newspaper, Borba, sat in the Yugoslav delegation in the U.N., and generally proved himself one of the most promising of the brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. His official...
Hemingway's African injuries were a ruptured kidney, bad burns, cracked skull, two compressed vertebrae and one vertebra cracked clear through. These were added to scars that cover perhaps half his body surface, including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take...
...down a flight of steps, was found by a guard on the second-floor landing, dazed and bleeding. In the prison hospital he tried to speak, but the words would not come. Next day, a surgeon operated to remove chips of bone and relieve pressure on the brain from skull fractures. Sixteen hours later, Bill Remington died...
...skull fragments were carefully fitted together; they were tested for fluorine, which generally increases with age. Then, diggers financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundation camped by the site to study its dusty geology. By tracing the various layers of red, grey, and white sand, they established that the skull belonged to an individual, most likely a young woman, who lived more than 10,000 years ago. She is almost certainly the oldest American whose bones have been found. This conclusion was backed by the fluorine tests and by the bones of extinct animals found in the sand with the skull...