Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard line. After Stan Merkel moved the ball over the midfield strip, Al Cullen shot through a hole in the left side of the line and broke free. The speedy back cut across the field at the 35 and raced down the right sideline to pay-dirt, after a bone-crushing block by Merkel cleared the way. Ted Marmor converted...
...this cannot be done." If an economy is asked to "carry more than it can," the results will be rising prices and - if inflation runs on unchecked - depression. "It may be well occasionally to recall the old story about the dog that jumped off the bridge to get the bone he thought he saw in the water, and thereby lost the bone he was carrying in his mouth...
...Mexico's Ambrosia Lake is a misnamed patch of sunbaked, bone-dry limestone where miners have long thought they smelled uranium. The Santa Fe Railway opened a small strip mine near by in 1950, and Anaconda Co. began to work the richest U.S. uranium mine 20 miles southeast of Ambrosia Lake. But no one struck it rich in Ambrosia Lake until 1955. Then a young (31) Texan named Louis B. Lothmann came in with a $10,000 grubstake, two years of college geology and a hunch on where to look. He teamed up with Septuagenarian Stella Dysart...
Almost a Shoo-In. From Carnarvon on the northwest shoulder of the continent, the bone-weary drivers struck out into the barrens of the "Never Never Land." Talcum-fine red dust blinded them, and tired eyes tricked them into braking their cars for no reason at all; strange, unearthy shapes seemed to dance across their headlight beams. This is kangaroo country, and the long-necked leapers chased cars down the road at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. One Japanese entry, a Toyopet Crown de Luxe, skidded off the road after a kangaroo bounced on its motor hood, dented a fender...
...group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls no longer needed to be reminded of Bible classes. They came on their bicycles through continual strafing attacks, both on Sundays and weekdays, to pray and sing together...