Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth Century-Fox, which last month suspended film production in Great Britain (so that its personnel abroad could bone up on Fox's new CinemaScope), admitted it would shut down Hollywood production for a month this fall. The New York Times estimated that Fox's total layoff of Hollywood personnel would reach 30 to 50% by October...
...spinning rod, and late in the week he fished St. Louis Creek for an hour and a half, catching a twelve-inch rainbow on his first cast. But fly-casting was not what the doctor ordered for the President's aching right elbow, which he had bone-bruised in Washington and aggravated by his daily golf games in Denver...
British sportswriters made remarkably uncricket exhibitions of themselves. Wrote the Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson: "We took them by the throat and scruff . . . We took them neck and crop, bag and baggage, hip and thigh, skin and bone, and we bundled them out . . ." Retorted an Aussie writer: "No trumpets yet, England...
...Bone Hill, the Reds built an arch of evergreen boughs, invited the G.I.s to "come on over and we will walk through the arch as brothers." At Arsenal Hill. Chinese banged pans, shuffled through the Yangko (harvest dance), while a man's voice, in good English, boomed over the loudspeaker: "Hello, G.I. The war is over. Let's sing together My Old Kentucky Home. I'll give you the beat first." Nobody took him up, so he sang alone...
...captains had quit their jobs on the Lee Hong because of O'Brien during his enforced cruise on the ferry. Last March, after the unwelcome passenger threatened to "break every bone in your lime-juicing body," a third tossed him into the ship's brig, where O'Brien continued to do a profitable smuggling trade through a porthole. But none of O'Brien's peccadilloes could discourage the kindly agents of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees or the National Catholic Welfare Council from busily working for his release. "He's had his punishment...