Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bone That cause the king to leave his throne...
...keep potentially troublesome university students in line, Trujillo organized the "President Trujillo University Police." Bodies of the few remaining opposition lawyers, students and journalists began cluttering up the usually super-sanitary streets. El Caribe laconically reported that one lawyer was found with every bone in his body broken. "Rumor has it," said the paper, "that he was hit by a truck." Afraid of similar "accidents," 14 refugees scuttled to sanctuary in the Venezuelan embassy...
...forest of disenchantment. Apart from a U.N.-like babel of accents, the brilliant cast often achieves a triumph of mime over matter. Radiant, in white kimono, as netted moonlight, Claire Bloom is part lotus flower, part flower of evil. Noel Willman's samurai is a bred-in-the-bone aristocrat, and Rod Steiger's bandit a bite-to-the-bone outlaw...
...Grisly Package. Belli's most noteworthy contribution to tort-trials is in his use of "demonstrative evidence," i.e., visual aids. He will take his skeleton, named "Elmer," into the courtroom and show the jury by experts' testimony exactly where plaintiff broke a bone, then stalk to his portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert...
Even Fleet Street reporters for Britain's brashest tabloids considered the Ellis articles to be "a bit near the bone...