Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undeniably, the bond that binds the members is their common love of opera. They take advantage of the club's seats to hear a favorite opera several times a season, bone up on the club's collection of librettos, delight in the chance to march around the stage in costumes as extras. Says Snyder: "Scratch the surface of an opera-club member, and underneath you'll usually find a former choirboy like me who never got over the singing virus...
...took their skills as seriously as they did. Their descriptions of the intricacies of the various positions and their special moments of triumph are as authentic as only shoptalk can be. Said a player of the awesome Night Train Lane: "He's got pipes for legs, all bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle and finally said, 'Christ, I don't . . , I can't think of any plays.' " Or the reticent Milt Plum, savoring a game...
...control" of the drill with which he had bored burr holes in patients' skulls. Whittaker maintained just as stoutly that Dr. Stevenson had always put the drill in place. After the holes were drilled, a fine wire saw was passed through them to cut out the flap of bone. Toward the end of an operation, the surgeon or his assistant took a needle and suture thread and sewed up the dura mater, the brain's tough encasing membrane. A nurse testified that in some cases Whittaker had placed these stitches, but he denied...
...Good Trouper." By the time Fair Lady opened in New Haven, Julie was the onstage backbone of the show and a walloping hit. Backstage she was the funny bone of the company-brewing up high tea every afternoon, expertly picking every pocket in the cast, bounding into her old music-hall routines. Everyone but Harrison was amused, but in the New York premiere he, too, came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried...
Then Dressler chipped a bone in his right hand near the end of the loss to Boston College ten days ago. Wilson has "no hesitancy about being able to use" Dressler in the tournament, but admits that he doesn't know for sure whether the injury has healed...