Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intervene. Not until angry U.N. aides induced Tshombe and two of his Cabinet ministers to drive to the camp was Urquhart released. "I was sure I was going to die there,'' he said after he left the hospital, where he got patchwork on his smashed nose, bruised skull and battered ribs...
...show off to other people." And then there are those who send trophies instead of poison-pen letters. One Marine officer, eager to express his opinion of a football referee, ordered a "Biggest Bonehead of the Year" trophy, and even supplied the bonehead: a souvenir Japanese skull, which Robbins gold-plated and suitably engraved. Another football referee, who was castigated for an outrageous yardage measurement, received a statuette of a referee with no hands...
...railroad station in a small resort outside Milwaukee when an express went by the station at full speed. A Saint Bernard had wandered onto the tracks; the train hit him and threw him into the crowd. The dog's body knocked my father against a pillar, breaking his skull. He was unconscious for a week...
...third eye, he explains, is the result of a bullet he caught while fighting in Spain ("Now there's a bit of plastic set into my poor skull"). Jackman and his men "might have commenced full of humanitarian sentimentality. And then, perhaps, demon ideology, with its imperatives and its inexorable dogmas, its sobersided caricature of religion, had swept them on to horrors." They are forever talking "of the sufferings of the working classes," but people in general are merely "that scum...
Since such skull-popping potions are occasionally fatal and almost always produce violence, the harried police spend much time raiding the stills, breaking up gang battles and arresting drunks. Some 25% of all arrests and prosecutions in South Africa are for liquor offenses; last year 312,520 liquor cases went to court, including 1,602 arrests of Africans for possessing yeast without a permit...