Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could pick it up. An orthopedic surgeon gave Grace the answer: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. Only a delicate bone graft could save him. Grace Kim made her decision...
Ronnie's diseased bones, she told the doctors, must be replaced with her own. Grace herself had already undergone a serious kidney operation, and the doctors were doubtful if she should attempt another, but the nurse was firm. And so Ronnie's ailing vertebrae were reinforced with healthy bone grafts from Grace...
Steep and unforgiving, the ski track lay like a white scar along the face of Sweden's Areskutan Mountain. Half a dozen of the world's best skiers had already tumbled into bone-bruising falls as they swooped down the dangerous drop, going all-out for the downhill championship of the world. Norway's Stein Eriksen might well have taken it easy. Far ahead on points after winning the slalom and giant slalom, the Oslo ski salesman could have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine...
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad is cutting its spending because of a sharp decrease in traffic. The line lost almost $3,500,000 in January, v. a profit of some $2,000,000 in January 1953. Orders have gone out to cut costs to the bone, stop work on a $6,000,000 station-renovation program...
...Pint-sized (5 ft. i in.) Robert Clary looms over the customers like King Kong with a French accent. And minor skits like Snake Charmer (on his daily round of the downtown office buildings), which tickled theatergoers to laughter, deliver a hard bang on the moviegoer's funny bone...