Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret that large Soviet spaceships such as the three-man Voskhod I were capable of many more actions than they had accomplished. Because of the lack of a big booster to launch them, U.S. man-carrying capsules, including Gemini, are comparatively light and have to be pared to the bone to save fractions of ounces. The Voskhods are roomy, and Soviet designers make the most of their space...
...that end, Special Envoy Kurt Birrenbach flew to Jerusalem and was astounded to discover that Israeli officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
...when four Baltimore physicians got a state charter for the world's first dental college, dentistry was still largely concerned with replacement of defective or missing teeth. One of its most impressive achievements was the ill-fitting sets of artificial teeth that had been carved from hippopotamus bone and mounted in gold by Boston-born John Greenwood more than 40 years before for George Washington...
...rest more often play at writing. All of them display the defect of dramatic inbreeding, attending plays instead of observing life. They share the avant-garde's peculiar complacency of despair. They seem to have acquired pain without suffering, ideas without thinking. As weather prophets of some endless bone-chilling night, they need to remind themselves that the sun also rises...
...this is little more than a dummy issue. The real bone of contention is automation, a thorny problem left unresolved by the last strike. The printers were then alarmed at the job threat posed by such new devices as computer-operated, tape-fed typesetting machines, now installed or on order at two of Manhattan's six dailies (the Times and the Post). Management is equally concerned, and has offered to neutralize the threat by attrition: to let only death, retirement and resignation, and not the machines, winnow the present population of the composing room. This concert of minds speaks...