Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When examination time comes along, the 2,500 cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are pretty much like college students everywhere. They bone up, take their tough tests, and then sweat out their grades. But some of them obviously have had less to sweat out than most. Reason: they cheated. The Air Force announced last week that a "well-organized" group of a dozen or so cadets stood accused of stealing examination papers and offering them for sale...
Expert beyond experience, He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone...
...prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language is bare, strong, lucid, manly: perhaps the most intensely concentrated prose ever written in English. In energy he is the last Elizabethan; not even Shakespeare...
...replacement for bone in 700,000 operations a year, surgeons will now have available a regular supply of calf bone, specially treated to remove all dangerous protein. E. R. Squibb & Sons this week announced the first U.S. Government approval of a sterilized calf bone, vacuum-packed, which can be stored at room temperature...
...weapons out of obsidian from a nearby volcano and cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...