Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have few worries. He will tie himself together for the last time and retire to his well-stocked Henryetta, Okla. ranch. "I keep a few calves so I'll be able to do a little ropin' and bulldoggin' of an evening," says Jim. But all that bone-breaking bareback riding will be behind him for good. Says he: "All the horses, on our place are usin' horses...
...kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...
...biochemist, professor of biological chemistry at Washington University's School of Medicine (since 1947), winner (with her biochemist husband Carl) of a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for studies of the body's uses of starches and sugars; of complications of myelofibrosis, a disease of the bone marrow; in St. Louis...
...Business School soccer field awaits today's M.I.T. game in deathbed shape. Baked bone-dry and brick-hard by the summer sun, and finally drenched by last weekend's rains, the playing field has congealed during the cool nights into a sort of black meringue jello, which makes footing treacherous and accurate ball control a happy accident...
When the Swiss government tried to bring the U.S. before the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague a fortnight ago, it hoped that the court would decide who owns General Aniline & Film Corp., the huge chemical firm that has been a bone of contention ever since World War II, when it was seized by the U.S. as enemy property (TIME, Oct. 14). The Swiss claim that the stock of the $163 million company rightfully belongs to Switzerland's Interhandel holding company, which ran General Aniline before World War II. The U.S. insists that Interhandel was merely...