Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bone-So that even the finest are deprived...
...much a bone of contention as Girard himself was the U.S.-Japanese "status of forces" agreement, which holds in general that U.S. military men shall be subject to Japanese law except when on duty. Japan claimed jurisdiction under the agreement because Girard shot the woman during a target-practice rest period, therefore was technically off duty. U.S. military authorities (who might have been able to head off the whole uproar by promptly court-martialing Girard) argued that he was on duty during the rest period, was therefore subject to military discipline. Finally, Rear Admiral Miles H. Hubbard, U.S. representative...
...plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
...dignity that grand opera demands. For a whole generation of operagoers, Pinza's Don Giovanni-in richly decorated doublet and single gold earring-was the virile embodiment of everything the role implied. Although Pinza could barely read music, he had a prodigious musical memory and a bone-deep sense of musical taste. He labored over makeup and stage business-he once spent hours hurling himself to the floor of the Met's stage to learn how Boris Godunov should die. At a few hours' notice he could move through any one of half a hundred roles with...
...whose lights were out. "Torpedo" watched Costello turn some fifteen feet in front of him, and then fired one shot from his .38 at Costello's head. The bullet entered Costello's head beneath his ear, wriggled through skin for a short distance, and emerged without having touched the bone. Then the real trouble began...