Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helper, a young boy named Manolin, who is devoted to him and whom the old man loves, has been forced by his family to leave the unlucky old man and find work on a more successful boat. But the boy still brings him bait and food. Gnarled and bone weary, the old man can only doze and dream and hope that his luck will change. Before dawn on the 85th day, feeling somehow confident, the old man sets out again in his skiff. "Good luck, old man," says Manolin. "Good luck," answers...
...years as a U.S. Representative, Republican Edwin Arthur Hall of Binghamton, N.Y. put his thumbprint on not one important piece of legislation, but worked his fingers to the bone doing 250,000 favors (by his count) for his constituents. He campaigned under a slogan of his own: "Hall for all means all for Hall...
...undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal job of making red and white blood cells...
...healthy nation," wrote Bernard Shaw in 1906, "is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again." In the late 19th century and early 20th, when the bone of Gaelic nationality was painfully being set, Ireland found voice to curse, plead, moan, gasp, roar and sing out a literature as great and sudden as any of modern times...
...Like Bones." On paper, Compromiser Sparkman looks like a good choice in the Democratic effort to patch up a North-South compromise. In fact, the choice of Sparkman has had little effect so far on the party in the South. Dissident Southern leaders, mildly pleased by Stevenson's nomination, tend to be contemptuous of Sparkman. The basic Southern objection to him is clearly expressed by a supporter of Georgia's Herman Talmadge: "Sparkman is as bad a left-winger as the rest, except on the civil rights issue." Says Herman himself: "Sparkman was just a bone tossed...