Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kefauver handshake has deservedly become a national monument. It is not bone-crushing, or even firm. It is limp but not clammy. An inward turn of the wrist prevents pressure that would later cause aches and pains. Unlike Adlai Stevenson, Kefauver does not chatter as he shakes; he utters one friendly sentence and reaches for the next hand. As he shakes with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention...
...Flags of Convenience." Niarchos is able to haul oil cheaper than U.S. producers can in their own tankers and pile up fabulous profits because, like most independents, he whittles operating costs to the bone, runs all but a few of his ships under "flags of convenience." Registered by mail order in Panama or Liberia, the ships pay only nominal taxes,* e.g., 10? a ton yearly, employ nonunion crews and are unlikely ever to be seized for defense reasons. Niarchos, in addition, pays no corporate taxes on most of his profits. These are considerations which no banker can afford to overlook...
...Rome, Clare Luce discovered to her surprise that she had to make great efforts to keep up the pace she had set herself. Day after day, she found herself feeling vaguely tired and ill. At first she ascribed the trouble to "Roman tummy," common to many a tourist. Then bone-gnawing fatigue set in. Nervousness and nausea followed. At an art festival in Venice a friend asked her to waltz. She found that her right foot was benumbed; she almost had to drag it in dancing...
...Australia's Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas-the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles Industrialist Allen Chase had formed Territory Rice Ltd., planned to spend at least $90 million turning the Outback into...
Carefully furthering his foaming reputation as the wild man of U.S. letters, Chicago's seamy-side Novelist Nelson (A Walk on the Wild Side) Algren avidly snapped at some old-bone subjects dangled before him in Manhattan by a World-Telegram and Sunman. Of his erstwhile great and good friend, French Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who unwarily dedicated her latest existentialist idyl, The Mandarins, to Algren: "A good female novelist ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown...