Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading what Mrs. Holstein "cooked" for her 14 guests, I think a woman would have to go out to work to pay her food bill! If more women would try making pea soup with a ham bone instead of buying it in can, there wouldn't be so much griping about not being able to make ends meet. MRS. FRANTZ Levittown...
...several miles later, the party reached a Chinese command post at Konka La, more than 16,000 ft. above sea level. The prisoners were herded into a 6-by-7-by-15 ft. pit normally used for storing vegetables, and covered with a tarpaulin through which whistled the bone-cracking Himalayan wind. For food there was only dry bread; they were refused water or permission to leave the pit to relieve themselves...
...Mother and Child, Amen departs sharply from the traditional Madonna ideal. While the plump infant grasps for her breast, the mother appears gaunt; and the multitude of lines evoking the forms of her collar-bone, neck and face seem to suggest a network of veins to her breast. The hint of despair in her eye reinforces the impression that she is being sucked dry by her thoughtless, greedy child. In its bitter message, stated with subtlety and thoughtfulness, this work provides a revealing antithesis to the view of children implicit in Amen's prettified prints like To Wonder...
...Navy patrol plane found the capsule bouncing on a rough sea, and in two hours after launch, the destroyer Borie picked it out of the water Opening the capsule itself was no problem but Monkey Sam had to stay in his inner package for four hours more, because Bone's officers did not dare tamper with its mysterious workings and high seas prevented transfer of the package to the task force's mother ship. Finally, guided by radioed instructions, the Borie's men gingerly opened the package. They found Sam the monkey "alive and kicking...
Nestled among the warm brown hills of the San Fernando Valley, hardly a bone's throw from some of the wealthiest Los Angeles suburbs, lies a brilliant green oasis of more than 300 acres, which at first glance seems to be a golf course. On closer examination, the oasis turns out to be none other than Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, the Versailles of cemeteries that Novelist Evelyn Waugh (The Loved One) celebrated as the supreme expression of the American Way of Death...