"He skis off, he turns around to get a pass, he slams into a tree head first, he falls down unconscious, " reports Hay, who says he was a few feet away.

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The tree that carried my ax head did not die, but it lost a major stabilizing part of its structure.

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Friday, a car traveling south on the Garden State Parkway skidded off the road in Hazlet and ran into a tree, causing a fatal head injury to the rear passenger, said Sgt.

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Wrapped fetally around the tree Eber traced the scar on his head.

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Frazier, who was on a motorcycle, died when a tree limb fell and struck him on the head, Jordan said.

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When a former head of America's Central Intelligence Agency allies himself with tree-hugging greens that his outfit would once have suspected of subversion, you know something is up.

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Butting and shaking, the animal, covered with shaggy black wool, looks as if he is either going to rip the tree from the ground or sacrifice a piece of his head.

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But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

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