Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loss in buying power also depressed business in communities with heavy concentrations of G.M. plants, where retail sales slumped and loan applications rose. In Pontiac, Mich., where hundreds of auto trailers stood empty and desolate, a butcher in a U.A.W. neighborhood noted that no one was buying his T-bone steak, sadly ground it into hamburger...
Then one day, in the fall of 1937, he was riding with a couple of titled Europeans on the bridle paths of Long Island's Piping Rock Club. His horse reared, threw him, fell on him, and smashed his legs so badly that bone protruded through the skin. For the rest of his life he was in pain. He lived much of the time in a wheelchair and on crutches...
...other. When it is pulled over a broken or badly burned limb, the inner tube fits loosely. Then, as a first-aider blows into the outer tube, air pressure forces the inner tube tight against the limb and extends it straight. The pneumatic splint prevents further damage from broken bone ends until the victim gets to a hospital. In burns, it prevents the seepage of body fluids-a major cause of burn "shock." And the pressure of the inner tube on the limb, whether broken or burned, prevents further bleeding...
Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to. Job, for example, went straight to the top, while others took their problems to lesser officials, settled, like Juliet, for a friar; like Aladdin, for a genie; like Oedipus, for an oracle; or like Dorothy, for an available wizard. It is only modern man-charged with an item he did not purchase, in arrears on accounts he has long since paid, his mail misdirected, his drains stopped up, toaster broken or license expired-who does...
...single slugger with a chance for 125 RBIs. The best pitcher, 19-year-old Wally Bunker (season's record: 14-4), worked only four big-league innings before this year. The best run producer, hulking Outfielder Boog Powell (31 home runs, 80 RBIs), is sidelined with a chipped bone in his wrist. The most promising new acquisition, First Baseman Norm Siebern, is suffering through the worst season of his career at the plate. The No. 1 relief pitcher, Stu Miller, a $30,000 man, has given up 10 runs in his last 17 innings...