Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is taking a poorhouse attitude toward the Public Speaking Department. Its propensity to cut the Department to the bone illustrates a strange sense of proportion in budgeting money and instructors. For, with no more full time teachers than the Mongolian department, and fewer courses than Sanskrit, the Department must watch sadly while students enter the fellowship of educated men incapable of effective speech...
...bulletproof vests, and trucks, jeeps, rifles, bazookas and ammunition. He netted some $200,000, tipped barbers at the Palace Hotel $5 for a 75? haircut. But Guatemala, nettled by the Eagle's noisy revelations of their dealings, last week broke off its purchases. Julian, now 55 ("and all bone and muscle-feel my arm!"), took this reverse manfully. "I'd grow old if I didn't get slapped down once in a while," said he. Then he headed back to his home in The Bronx...
...grudge game, and the stakes were high: a chance for the Rose Bowl jackpot. California, ranked fourth in the nation and trained in an offense that had not been shut out in 60 games, was meeting an old enemy: seventh-ranked University of Southern California (U.S.C.), owner of a bone-rattling defense that had yielded only 19 points in five games. California, a six-point favorite, had the three top-ranked running backs of the Pacific Coast, including All-America Candidate Johnny Olszewski; U.S.C., a conservative single-wing team, had a middleweight (5 ft. 9 in., 164 Ibs.) tailback named...
...Leonardo Cremonini is only 27 but a major Italian abstractionist. In his strongly sculptural Slaughterhouse, he gets his effects with bone-dry lights and luminous, wet darks that dominate but do not obscure the subject matter...
Philadelphians saw a tortured bronze Growth by France's Jean Arp that looks like a fractured ham bone, a carved wood Reclining Figure by Britain's Henry Moore, all lumps and holes, with tiny breasts and huge, finlike legs. There were slim bronze stringbeans for human figures in City Square by Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti, wrought iron spikes and loops for a Woman Combing Her Hair by Spain's Julio Gonzalez, tinkling wire tendrils for a Streetcar by U.S. Mobilist Alexander Calder...