Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the King's spending is an unavoidable legacy of tradition to which he is bound whether he enjoys it or not. Every night the royal board seats from 80 to 200 guests and retainers, where the King, a huge man, big of bone and body in his father's mold, presides with courtly grace. In the first year of his reign, he has traveled more widely than old Ibn Saud ever did. One trip south, which took him over some 3,500 kilometers of flinty desert innocent of all roads, was an astonishing testimonial...
...What's My Line? He fills the role of the man of substance, serious, determined, but not quite as scintillating as the rest of the panel. When he does solve a contestant's trade, he is likely to worry the problem like a dog with a bone, asking repeated questions long after it is obvious to even the dullest viewer that he knows the answer. Cerf's apparent function is to slow down the headlong pace of the game. He does it almost too well...
...that we ask nothing of love, when love is itself the far country that is also home." Versatile Novelist Johnson-who is also a critic, a playwright and the wife of British Novelist C. P. (The New Men) Snow-sketches her woman's world, from perennial vamps to bone-weary matrons, with authority and skill. The book may not be everybody's cup of tea, but at least it is the strong-flavored, real thing-not some substitute out of a literary...
Stalin quickly countered: "There are some very good people among the Poles. They are good fighters." He tossed in a consolation bone: to show how fair the Polish elections would be, he would see to it that Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, sturdy Polish Peasant Party leader and chief hope for a free Poland, would be allowed to return to Poland and electioneer...
...Planned, in the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, to reopen the case of ex-Army Dentist Irving Peress, the chief bone of contention in last year's Army-McCarthy hearings...