Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend over a drink or two-Scotch and soda for Ike, a bone-dry martini for Milton-furl sleeves, lounge coatless in the easy chairs and talk...
...this hostile environment De Gaulle made no public appearances. Instead, he spent two days consulting with local dignitaries-including a number of Moslems, whose names were kept secret to protect them from rebel reprisals. Then, bone tired, he canceled plans for a tour of the Algerian interior and set off for Paris. On the day of his departure his recorded voice boomed out over Radio Algiers, promising neither the right to independence to Algerian Arabs nor the prospect of "integration" with France to the French Algerian colons. A yes vote on his constitution, declared De Gaulle, "will mean...
...duration of life. During that three years there was relatively good health and many were in a good state of nutrition, without symptoms or pain; most of them were able to do their usual work." One of the most consistently predictable benefits, he said, was relief of pain from bone cancer. In some cases. Dr. Murray went so far as to describe patients' improvement as "spectacular." But he warned that some patients have sensitivity reactions to the horse serum, and he says it should never be given to those with damaged livers...
...learn from White that each baron owed the King an annual sniff of hot pie in payment of his feudal dues, that a certain bone from the body of a pure black cat that had been boiled alive was believed to make one invisible. Against these curiosa, the characters still manage to hold their own: Sir Galahad, who is so priggish a saint that lesser knights loathe him; Jenny, who cannot make her mind up whether to be a good woman or go on in her usual way; Lancelot, the ugly duckling who is loved by all save himself. Balancing...
...Mayo Smith). Best bet to succeed him: fiery, onetime Big-League Infielder (Cubs, Dodgers, Braves, Giants, Cardinals) and Manager (Cardinals) Eddie Stanky. ¶ Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn, winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, runner-up in the Belmont Stakes even though he fractured a sesamoid bone during the race, was judged incapable of carrying assigned racing weights despite successful corrective surgery, will be retired to stud in Lexington, Ky. Unplaced in his only race of 1957, the stylish colt, son of Tom Fool, won ten of 13 races this year, earned...