Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent...
...obese woman, meat shakin on the bone...
...hereditary condition known, rather unpleasantly, as hammertoes, in which shrinking tendons curl the toes downward and lock them into permanent cramp. He wears corrective steel-plated shoes that weigh three pounds each, but to remedy the ailment will probably require a series of operations involving severing the tendons and bone fusion...
...year is 1867. With winter due, the city of Denver has been hit by a liquor shortage. In ten days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields...
...took a coffee break before loading the baggage. In Ireland a three-week-old strike of gravediggers, who demanded longer vacations, is forcing mourners to bury their own dead. In Australia, 100 Queensland packinghouse workers struck for three days because, they cornplained, the beef carcasses were "too hard" to bone; they forced the company to let its meat thaw longer. In West Germany, smart Hausfrauen no longer complain if a German cleaning woman fails to appear on the job; they get to work themselves and woo her back with flowers. In Tokyo, maids quit at 5:30 p.m. to attend...