Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems of living beneath the sea were varied and puzzling. All the men suffered frequent headaches, occasional absentmindedness, and the strange experience of waking at night perspiring even while feeling bone-chilling cold. Often they noticed a cloudy inability to reason quickly that became known as "the Sealab effect." In the helium-filled atmosphere of the capsule, sounds took some weird twists, and it was often hard to tell which direction a voice was coming from. Consonants got lost in the thin air. Paul became "aul" and Jell-O "ello.' "Every time someone opened his mouth," said Carpenter...
Compared with the 19th century poor so bitingly described in literature-Zola's Gervaise "was quite willing to dispute with a dog for a bone"-the American poor are well off. They would be considered rich by most Red Chinese, whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia...
Painful Reverses. Field's personal life was another matter. He was almost painfully aware of his family responsibilities and he took reverses very hard. He had already been divorced once, and after the death of his father in 1956 and a series of bone-wearying negotiations with other publishers, he suffered a nervous breakdown that hospitalized him for six months. After periodic relapses, his second marriage was also dissolved. A third divorce was probably imminent. Since 1963 he had been less and less able to exercise command; control of Field Enterprises, Inc., passed into the hands of the three...
...down the ladder from last year. They had only one lefthanded pitcher on their roster - Bob Hendley - whom they swiftly traded off to Chicago. Star Slugger Orlando Cepeda (31 homers, 97 RBIs in 1964) was laid up, maybe permanently, with an injured knee. Leftfielder Willie McCovey was suffering from bone spurs and fallen arches. Even Willie Mays seemed over the hill; in 1964 he had slipped under .300 for the first time in eight years...
Nellson's list runs for 1,736 pages, from Aden (bone sellers, dates, gums and spices) to Zambia (cement makers, mining companies, clothing manufacturers). The International Yellow Pages also locates beeswax in Angola, molasses in the British West Indies, yacht charterers in Cambodia, industrial real estate agents and vodka vendors in the Soviet Union, lawyers in the Fiji Islands, safari services in Kenya, coconut harvesters in Tanzania. Even Pope Paul's Vatican City telephone number is in the book: Vatican City...