Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been a pretty good deal. Johnny's raspy. throaty, wailing voice is perfectly suited to traditional blues, while his lightning-fast finger work, on both electric and acoustic "bottleneck" guitar, can only be compared to the style of such legendary black musicians as Robert Johnson and T-Bone Walker...
...made of glaring dust and prickly sweat. The men of the Biafran 55th Battalion were a motley group, mostly barefoot, lacking uniforms, and so short of weapons that a single bolt-action rifle served two or even three men. They had taken up positions around Umuneke in the thick, bone-dry bush. A blocking party had infiltrated the rear of the village and set up the homemade electrically detonated mines the soldiers call Ojukwu's kettles. The strategy was simplicity itself: drive the Nigerians back onto the mines and detonate them...
...look at some of Nixon's appointments in the right-wing newsletter Human Events. "Pat Moynihan's affable face rises like a moon over urban affairs," he wrote, and declared that conservatives had been waiting in vain for a few scraps from the Administration. "Throw us a bone, Mr. President!" he begged...
...Spectaror's advantages are not well exploited though. The Ivy Walls yields to the same eyewitness impulse that drives White House nannies to publish their memoirs. They are tempted to tell everything, "just as it happened." The streaming flaming narrative does lend flesh, bone, and color as the press blurb promises; it also jumbles events into a sequence as confusing as living it the first time through. The fine-honed skeleton of the Cox Report may stiffen in its structured divisions and categories, creak in its outline, but it does throw critical events into prominence and leave others...
Mantle believed it. He underwent surgery five times to remove torn cartilage from his knees and bone chips from his right shoulder. For eight seasons he had to bind each leg from ankle to thigh with 7-ft. strips of foam-rubber bandages "to hold things together." Even so, in his final years, he was reduced to hobbling around the field like a cart horse. And at the plate, each time he swung the bat he noticeably winced and grunted with pain...