Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revelry in Miami, ripening (54) Bon Vivant Lucius ("Luscious") Beebe, now publisher of the Virginia City, Nev. Territorial Enterprise, rolled into Jacksonville in his elegant private railroad car (accouterments: three master bedrooms, a Turkish bath, a wine closet, a St. Bernard dog woofing to the name of Mr. T-Bone Towser). Local reporters converged on the track where Beebe was parked with his traveling companion, Charles Clegg. Q.: "How much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman just...
...days and two nights the steel-bands played on without pause. In the late hours of mardi gras, bone-weary celebrants sat on curbstones, heads in arms, waiting for transportation home. But still, here and there, a clanking, humming steel-band could be heard, and its dancing members still wore expressions that seemed to say: this is our day, and this is the music that truly belongs to us. When midnight struck, the music stopped, and Trinidad's steelbands vanished from the streets for another year...
...varsity track team will be without its ace hurdler, broad jumper, and dash man for at least five weeks. Joel Cohen broke a bone in his foot while practicing for the New England A.A.U. Meet in the M.I.T. cage on Monday...
...embarrassing fall capped a long list of more serious accidents. All week ski trails had softened under bright skies, then frozen at night into suicidal speed runs. U.S. Army Private Leslie Streeter broke a shoulder bone. His teammate, Ragnar Ulland, soared to a crash landing in a practice ski jump and was badly bruised. Italy's downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which...
...Cigarette Problem. The poverty with which the book deals is more comic than tragic. Hero Gordon Comstock is bone-poor, not because he is genuinely down-and-out, but because a pinkish bee in his bonnet tells him that it is nobler to half-starve than surrender to what he calls "the money-code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman...