Word: spinal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Penitentiary at Parchman ordered Inmate William Hardin Bogard to take a sewing machine away from James B. ("Slick") Davis, a fellow inmate. Davis, who was allowed to work in the prison slaughterhouse even though he had been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, jammed a butcher knife into Bogard's spinal cord. The incident was Bogard's second bloody encounter with the malign brutality that has established Parchman as one of the most dangerous prisons in the U.S. Less than a year before, he was shot in the foot by another inmate, who had been armed to supervise cons working...
Bumpers decided to run for the Senate partly for financial reasons. He and his wife Betty have three children; one daughter has a serious spinal condition. As a Senator he will make $42,500 a year instead of the penurious Arkansas Governor's salary of $10,000. Beyond that, he is intensely ambitious, and it is presumed that he wants to be nothing less than President. A few years ago, that would have been an impossible dream for a Southerner, but no longer...
...Texas Christian University lay on the ground before 63,000 spectators, unable to move. Moments before, he had been toting the pigskin, trying to gain yardage for his team. Yet there he lay, the victim of a jarring tackle which landed him upside down. The result: a damaged spinal cord and instant paralysis from the neck down...
...what Hammons had immediately suspected: the bones were human. The hunter had apparently found the first concrete clues to the mysterious disappearance of seven young women from various parts of Washington State since last January. Searchers sent to the area amassed a grisly pile of evidence: two jawbones, two spinal columns, some vertebrae, two leg bones apparently from the same person, two leg bones from a different person and more swatches of hair. The bones were from at least three different bodies, and with the help of dental charts, experts brought in by the police concluded that the jaw bones...
Meningitis-inflammation of the parchment-like covering of the brain and spinal cord-was relatively uncommon in Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those...