Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Achievement. In the main, bone-crushing defense has been the key to Michigan State's success. "Football is not a contact sport," Daugherty tells his players. "It is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." In their collision with Ohio State last month, the Spartans held the Buckeyes to minus-22 yds. rushing-the first time they have ever failed to gain on the ground. Michigan, the defending Big Ten champion, got even less: minus-51 yds. Last week the Spartans allowed Iowa a grand total of 86 yds., 85 of them in the air, never...
Willie is mad, and in this eerily brilliant little novel the reader is invited to dive down and down into the lurid whirlpool of his aberration and there circle with the weird debris of Willie until he knows in every bone of his being how it feels to be insane...
Steve Diamond, thought lost for the season with a broken bone in his wrist, has been given clearance to return to the football team after x-rays on Monday revealed that the bone wasn't broken after...
Most of the familiar spy-story elements are there: an inexplicable but obviously treacherous plot against the national welfare of jolly old England, an equally enigmatic and treacherous villain, and a beautiful girl. All the events necessary for a good thriller occur with surprising regularity: a snappy, bone-crunching fight, an amusing seduction, and a sadistically satisfying torture...
...killing with impunity. No highway was safe by night, and few by day; the trains had long since stopped running. From their tunneled redoubts, the Communist Viet Cong held 65% of South Viet Nam's land and 55% of its people in thrall. Saigon's armies were bone weary and bleeding from defections. As the momentum of their monsoon offensive gathered, the Communists seemed about to cut the nation in half with a vicious chop across the Central Highlands. The enemy was ready to move in for the kill, and South Viet Nam was near collapse...