Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year Congressmen do their best to cut foreign aid to the bone, but in the current session their knives have sliced to the program's very marrow. Last week, after months of dispute between the House and Senate and still more wrangling between the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations committees, the full House finally approved the lowest aid appropriation in the program's history and severely restricted U.S. military-aid activities...
...adjacent vertebrae. To compensate for this difference in length, Murray removed three-quarters of an inch of Proulx's spinal cord at the damaged area, carefully cutting it so that the severed nerve fibers would fit precisely together when reconnected. Murray then cut a matching length of bone from Proulx's vertebrae, completed the operation by rejoining both spinal cord and bone...
...Tigers snaked the ball up to the goal line three times in the first half, only to be stopped by desperate Harvard scrambling, including a bone-breaking tackle by wing Parker Wise...
...sounds vaguely like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice") and does songs (She Was a T-Bone Talking Woman but She Had a Hot-Dog Heart}. In Las Vegas, he sings "You load 16 tons and what do you get? A hernia." That's good for $40,000 a week...
...when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson established it as an American principle almost two centuries ago. It is not a concept to be traded in for anyone's notion of private gain or social welfare. It is not an efflorescence of elite aestheticism, it is the bone and muscle of democarcy, and I repeat that it is time those who see this begin insisting...