Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...
...legs had been useless from birth; she had a twisted wrist and a deformed hand. At 30, she seemed hopelessly crippled. But early this year, Orthopedic Surgeon S. Perry Rogers of El Paso amputated her legs and got ready to fit artificial limbs. Since El Paso has no bone bank, Dr. Rogers (with the patient's permission) kept the amputated bones in his food freezer...
...Rogers got a chance to draw on his improvised bone bank when he was called in to treat two little girls, Martha Arellano, 7, and Lily Mendoza, 6, who have tuberculosis of the spine. Dr. Rogers used sections of bone from Olivia Holguin's legs to strengthen the little girls' vertebrae. Walking well on her new legs (she used neither crutches nor cane), Olivia Holguin went to Southwestern General Hospital to pay a visit to the children she had helped to mend. Last week, both youngsters went home...
...excesses, Saturday's Hero is Hollywood's most authentic approach to football, and illustrates the game itself with a hurtling camera that absorbs the bone-crunching punishment of scrimmage and play. Hero Derek wears a clumsy crew cut, which does not quite keep him from looking too pretty for his role, and a monotonous expression of intensity, which does not quite pass for acting. The film's most natural performer: Aldo DaRe (named John Harrison for future film roles), as a wised-up teammate who is out for all the dough...
...price of one). Television's shaggy old movies and annoying commercials are already driving people back to the movie theaters (look at the box-office figures). Said one spokesman: "They're getting tired of watching Charles Laughton, as King Henry the Eighth, tossing a chicken bone over his shoulder-smack into a singing bottle of 20th Century beer...