Word: skulls
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...fever and the rest thrown into disarray. In 1804, a former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke...
Despite obvious dissimilarities, the Big Three have some important bonds in common. Each has a Phi Beta Kappa key and a striking record of success before joining the Government. Bundy, 46, was Skull and Bones at Yale, became dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 34. McNamara, 48, became the $400,000-plus-a-year president of Ford at 44. Rusk, 56, was a Rhodes scholar, became president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
Merely to locate the pituitary, encased in a bony box like a bomb shelter in the middle of the skull, is a highly delicate, dangerous procedure, and surgeons have tried several approaches. Dr. Robert W. Rand and his team at U.C.L.A. go in through the nasal passages and the sphenoid bone that lies behind them. First, the patient's head is clamped in a stereotactic device that enables the surgeons to take bearings in three dimensions. Then the surgeons saw through the intervening bone and insert the ultracold cannula. Dr. Rand found that temperatures...
...grievances between the two nations (TIME, April 2), including a new fishing pact that many Koreans consider excessively advantageous to the Japanese. And what soon gave the student uprising a special focus was the emergence of a "martyr," Tonggook University Student Kim Chung Bai, 21, who died of a skull fracture in the opening round of riots. Protest "mourning rallies" blossomed, and 100 Tonggook coeds solemnly paraded wearing black ribbons for their dead hero...
...caught alone in an open strath, by an English knight who leveled his lance and charged in for the kill. As the Scottish host stared stupefied, Bruce lightly eluded the lance and then brought his battle-axe down with such force that the English knight was split from skull to saddle...