Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
...want to catch cold. Degas was an expert on the human figure, which he handled as objectively as a chair. He was not sentimental about ballet, described his dancer-models as "little rats." One of the "rats" once remarked that "when you work for Degas you feel every bone in your body." Anyone who looks long at his work can feel the bones...
...officially retired, Dr. McCollum has started a new career, probing the secrets of the amino acids which the body makes by digesting proteins and then uses as building blocks. If they can be isolated from animal matter that is now usually thrown away (blood, bone, hair and feathers), they might be used to stretch the world's supply of protein foods by as much as 50%. There are 23 amino acids, and Dr. McCollum has succeeded in getting only one in pure crystalline form. It does not bother him that there are 22 to go. "I expect...
...style distinguishes her from most of the ladies. Nimbly toe-dancing on the baseline, she suddenly stops bouncing and slugs scorching drives-forehand or backhand-deep into enemy territory. Less outstanding are Maureen's service and volleying: she has the bone and muscle (130 Ibs.) but not quite the height (5 ft. 4 in.) to bang in cannonball aces and smashing kills...
...Seoul. The faithful medics had brought him down from his bloody hill by litter jeep, taken him to a mobile field hospital where a helicopter whirled him off for neurosurgery at the evacuation hospital. The surgeons deftly chipped away some of the skull, carefully picked and washed the dirt, bone splinters and hair from the missile track in his brain, and sewed him up again. The splinter itself, about five milimeters square, was left untouched; to remove it would have meant damaging unharmed tissue, and experience has shown that it will soon be covered with scar tissue and cause...