Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazi savagery soon showed its mad face. Periodically, groups of the sick, the aged, and such "racial inferiors" as Poles, Jews and gypsies, were marched off to the gas chambers. Young Polish girls were isolated in the camp hospital and used as guinea pigs for experimental transfers of bone and muscle. Later, hobbling on sticklike legs, they returned to their huts-only to be put on the gas-chamber list because they could no longer do a full day's work...
...Speech. Most human feedback systems are built into the nerves or into the brain itself, where they cannot easily be tinkered with. The feed-back of speech is more accessible. The brain normally keeps track of speech by means of reports, which it gets through the ears and by bone conduction, upon the pronunciation of each syllable. As each report arrives, the brain tells the vocal apparatus to go ahead and speak the next syllable. The whole thing happens so rapidly and smoothly that the speaker is rarely conscious...
Another former laboratory worker, Joseph Ackermann, said the director ordered a "very special present" for Koch's birthday, a lamp of human skin and bone. "The light was switched on by pressure against the little toe of one of the three human feet which formed the stand...
...AFFAIRS). Sitting in his big leather chair, lean, long-faced Charlie Ross leaned back to light a cigarette, waited for the television men to set up their cameras so he could repeat part of the briefing for them. It had been a hard, crisis-crowded day, and he looked bone-tired. Suddenly, the cigarette fell from his lips and he slumped sideways in his chair. Within seconds, Charlie Ross was dead of a heart disease...
Stevenson played the rest of the game, and ended it without any sign of a limp. Yesterday morning his foot hurt, and he had X-rays taken, which indicated either a broken bone in the arch of his right foot or a bad bruise...