Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulars threatening I Corps. Though the Marines pulverized the Communist forces, they took high casualties. Walt's critics cited the U.S. losses as the reason for his surrendering command to Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. Actually, it was known long before the DMZ battles that Walt, bone-weary from endless rounds of 15-hour days, was leaving Viet Nam at the end of his second year...
...Ball had a hard game and improved real well during the season," he said. "Hindert played a whole week with a broken bone in his leg, before we realized it was broken. He gave us 100 per cent all the time," Wynn pointed...
...foreign affairs, the 18th century visionary saw the potential of the colonies and endorsed the French Revolution as he had the American Revolution before it. At home, he applied advanced industrial techniques at his factory near Stoke-on-Trent, where he taught workers the art of creating finely glazed bone china...
Though few people outside medicine and biology know the word, collagen is one of the most important constituents of the human body, making up 30% of its protein. In bone and tooth enamel, its long chains of molecules serve the same purpose as that of steel reinforcing rods in concrete. In mobile tissues' such as tendons, arteries and heart valves, they are like flexible steel wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones...
...break loose, like the Chinook salmon jumping and falling backnosing up to the impossible stone and bone-rushing waterfall--raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there stopped...