Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that grows on the earth till they were dry-And drank the marrow of the bone...
...business of running the country. He had, after all, introduced the steel proposals primarily as a sop to those same left-wingers, who already have talked ominously of revolt against Wilson's foreign and defense policies. Now he had simply balanced the sop for the left with a bone for the right...
...resting his aching legs on the bench. Roger Maris, a $72,000-a-year man, was sprawled in an easy chair in Independence, Mo., nursing a pulled hamstring muscle. Catcher Elston Howard, $70,000 worth of talent, was out of action for six weeks after an operation for bone chips in his elbow. To replace Howard, the Yankees shipped two players off to Kansas City in exchange for H. R. ("Doc") Edwards, whose credentials include a lifetime batting average of .244 and a tour of duty as a Navy medic...
...committee found a bone in its throat. "1964 was not a vintage year for broadcasting," blurted Peabody Juror Paul Porter, onetime Federal Communications Commission chairman. It was, he continued, "a year when the intelligent adult television audience has been consistently shortchanged by networks wooing teen-agers." In sum, a year of so much "dreary sameness and steady conformity" that "some of the Peabody judges were tempted to take a sabbatical and not make any awards...
...recovery. When he cut into the knobs, though, he found cords of pearly white material, and he was afraid that he might have hit a misplaced tendon or nerve. Eventually, he decided that the white strands were an overgrowth of connective tissue, the deeper, fibrous layer between skin and bone. This might be more serious than an overgrowth of the horny layer, but it too will subside if the surfer stays off his board for four to six months...