Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disease. By X-rays and study of the growth of a child's normal leg, orthopedists can tell how long the stunted leg will be when it stops its retarded growth. They operate on the good leg when it reaches this length, removing a portion of the bone so that it will stop growing. When the afflicted leg has grown as much as it can, both legs will be the same length, enabling the child to walk almost as easily as a normal person...
...faked skull fractures. Once, in the rest room of the Pacific Greyhound Bus Line in Reno, she apparently took a too realistic spill on her head. She regained consciousness in a hospital. A neurologist, called in on the case, looked her over and ordered a brain operation. Some bone was removed, and she lay close to death for days. For this ordeal she collected her biggest claim...
Outpointed. In Houston, after a domestic brawl, Mrs. John Womack nursed a hurt finger, husband John a broken 1) nose, 2) bone in his right foot, 3) rib, 4) pair of spectacles...
...combination of depression and increased truck and barge competition almost wrecked Central. It suspended dividends, and its stock, which had once hit $184, fell to $4.75. Control of the entire $700,000,000 system could have been bought for only $3,300,000. By trimming costs to the bone, President Lawrence Downs and his successor, John L. Beven, managed to pull the road through, though it was touch & go. One time, the papers were even drawn up to put it into bankruptcy. World War II sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million...
...Pease technique is based on the fact that a foreign object lodged in a bone (or any part of the body) causes irritation which results in increased circulation in the region. In a minor operation, Pease bores a hole in the bone of a stunted leg about one-half inch from the epiphyseal plate (the layer of growing cells near the end of a bone) and inserts a small screw. A screw of almost any material will cause enough irritation to promote circulation, but Dr. Pease prefers ivory because it is eventually absorbed by the body. Under the stimulus...