Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hatred lies bone-deep, and is cultural as well as religious. Hindus worship cows and Moslems eat them. Hindus regard Moslems as unclean, and Moslems call Hindus caste-ridden. The great Sepoy Rebellion still rankles. When Moslem regiments revolted, Hindus helped the British to crush them...
Some newspapers have sent staffers to schools.and conferences to bone up on the intricacies of city government; others have assigned reporters permanently to their city's urban renewal and anti-poverty programs. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is training reporters not to stick to a particular city beat but to move with ease from city to surrounding counties; its energetic city hall reporter, Ed Grimsley, roams the U.S. as well as Canada in search of novel solutions to city problems. The Milwaukee Journal runs a fat Sunday section, Home, which covers all facets of the city building boom; many...
...molds with plastic. After baking for about 15 minutes in a 500° oven, a tooth was rockhard, ready to be sandblasted smooth, sterilized and put into the gaping socket in the patient's mouth. There Dr. Hodosh fastened it in place-sometimes by a pin through adjacent bone, sometimes by a bridge attachment to neighboring teeth...
...Sean F. Mullan begins with a simple injection of anesthetic into the side of the neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms...
...might. Suddenly I felt my hand slip into his mouth up to the wrist. I yanked frantically and got my hand free, but left shreds of flesh on Nero's teeth. Then he sank his teeth into my right leg until they actually penetrated to the bone and he started to drag me to one side of the arena. Just then he noticed the lioness, and went to her. I was unconscious the better part of twelve days, and they just about gave...