Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not to say that anti-histaminics have been proved worthless, but the council wants proof of their value to be shown by wider and far more searching studies, than any yet undertaken. And the council is still worried about harmful side effects (e.g., drowsiness, dizziness, damage to bone marrow, reduction of white blood cells) reported to follow the use of some anti-histaminics in certain cases...
...slipped through the melee, cocked his fist, was set to throw a haymaker against Italy's motionless Premier when another huge fist, belonging to Labor Minister Achille Marazza, appeared from nowhere and knocked him flat. In frustrated rage, Comrade Di Mauro bit Marazza's thumb to the bone. Meanwhile, Comrade Togliatti had prudently retreated to the corridor...
...conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
...next day, however, legislative ardor had cooled somewhat. Dr. Billy declined an invitation to heat up the house of representatives also. There the bone-dry bill rested safely in a pigeonhole in the Temperance Committee when the legislature closed its session last week. Had the bill reached the floor, and had Dr. Billy put in an appearance, legislators thought it might well have passed. Many a Georgia wet lifted his thanksgiving dram shakily, at so close a call...
...Belgium's Finance Minister Camille Gutt took stern action to get his country back on its feet: he tightened credit, levied heavy taxes, cut government spending to the bone. The course was unpopular in Belgium, and Gutt fell from power. But last week gutty Mr. Gutt, now head of the International Monetary Fund, had his reward. The Fund announced that Belgium had paid in full the $33 million loan borrowed two years ago to build up its dollar reserves. It thus became the first European nation to wipe out its debt to the Fund.* Said one Fund official...