Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barry Giles is a victim of fragilitas ossium (brittleness of the bones). No matter how well-balanced his diet or how rich it may be in calcium, his bone-forming cells simply do not make enough bone matrix. The result is that all his bones are thin, slightly porous and extremely brittle...
...teacher visits him two hours a day. Barry's mother, a railway worker's wife, always picks him up by the hips rather than grasping him under the arms. "He seems to have developed a sixth sense about bumping into anything that might break a bone," she says. "Unfortunately, he can't anticipate other people's actions. When visitors come, he usually sits under the table. He finds that the safest place...
Furthermore, students here are mostly liberal arts majors, and only in a few cases get the specialized training that forms the back-bone of study at many colleges. They therefore find that fields like accountancy, electronics, or advertising, are closed to them unless they take special training courses. More important, they start off knowing little or nothing about what work they will have to do in such fields...
...kitchen middens, Dr. Orr drew some conclusions about his forgotten Indians. They took steam baths, and lived mostly on red abalone, which they gathered off the rocks by diving deep. They also ate sea lions, seals and whales. At their religious ceremonies, the instrumental music was supplied by little bone whistles. When children died, Dr. Orr suspects, their bodies were buried in a special place or thrown into the sea; only two skeletons of children were found in the cemetery. Why did the Red Heads paint the skulls of their dead? Dr. Orr hasn't a clue...
...body in the seaside bungalow was Emily Kaye's. The trouble was going to be in proving it. Four large pieces of her body were lying in a trunk. Thirty-seven smaller pieces were in a hatbox. The rest of her had been reduced to splinters and bone dust...