Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southeast of New Delhi, Deendayal Upadhyaya waved cheerily to his supporters. A few hours later, some 40 miles from Jaunpur, the 50-year-old president of India's second largest political party - the Jana Sangh - was found dead by the side of the tracks, with a crushed skull and fractures of eight ribs, an ankle and an arm. Authorities said that Upadhyaya may have fallen from the train, but the Jana Sangh party called his death "a politically motivated, cold-blooded murder...
...prepare its final blows. But the personal toll on Friedman was tremendous: "The despair of the long weeks when the problem seemed insoluble, the repeated dashings of uplifted hopes, the tension and the frustration and the urgency and the secrecy all converged and hammered furiously upon his skull." He collapsed, but three months after his breakdown, Friedman returned to work, although in a less demanding area. Today, at 76, he lives in Washington in retirement...
...about $1,400,000 over the years from the sale of farm products, and few prisoners ever seemed to escape. But the realities of prison life in Arkansas were far removed from the comfortable assumption. The point was brought home painfully when three skeletons, one decapitated, one with its skull crushed, the third with its legs broken back, were unearthed from shallow, unmarked graves in a field of the state's Cummins prison farm...
...other pro players complain that helmets are hot and cumbersome. What's more, says ex-Chicago Coach Johnny Gottselig: "A guy wearing a helmet invites attention. Players are apt to give him a few extra raps on the skull, figuring they won't hurt...
...beyond neurosis, to a new freedom and a new height of truth. Up there, man-made illusions do not exist, and all opposites are fused. Life is death, good is evil, creation is destruction; the only thing that matters is what goes on inside the confines of each isolated skull...