Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Medically Oriented. McKusick's team had already examined most of the association members, piecing together family trees, taking blood and cell specimens to study chromosomes and hormones and X-raying joints to look at cartilage-bone defects. A great deal of work remains to be done, so 18 Little People arrived days ahead of time. They were admitted to the hospital for detailed tests by orthopedists, ophthalmologists, and otolaryngologists. Especially concerned were the gynecologists, for dwarf women's babies usually have to be delivered by caesarean section. Of the dozen conventions the Little People have had, this...
...fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant DC-8 jetliner turned into 55 hours of bone-wearying imprisonment that had diplomats in Washington and Moscow on tenterhooks...
...waited inside a women's public lavatory. When Lilah Kistler, 24, a Pennsylvania physician's daughter who earned $80 a week walking dogs in the park, tied a Hungarian puli to the fence outside and walked into the lavatory, Angelof killed her with one shot from his bone-handled .45-cal. revolver...
...Guarducci first published her thesis that the bones were those of Peter in 1965-and was strongly attacked by other scholars. If Pope Paul had any fresh evidence to bolster her thesis, he did not cite it, and his announcement acknowledged that controversy over the claim is likely to continue. For one thing, the tomb itself dates from the 4th century. For another, many scientists would contend that it is impossible to establish the identity of the remains without some clue to Peter's physique, such as a bone deformation. Finally, while the bones unquestionably have a personal significance...
...moon seemed closer than ever last week when the hatch of an Apollo lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...