Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeeding mightily. Havana, once the gayest city in the hemisphere, continues its steady decline into uniform drabness. The people are quieter, the buildings shabbier, the cars fewer and more dilapidated. The U.S. cars that once taxied tourists around are vanishing fast-and so are the American buses. As bone-jouncing replacements, canvas-covered Russian trucks with wooden benches for seats rattle through the streets. A year and a half ago, Havana's news stalls still displayed a few back copies of U.S. magazines, but no more. And a monotonous buzz blots out the radio broadcasts from Miami. Even that...
Died. Karl Knight Probst, 79, freelance consulting engineer who reportedly got $200 (his standard weekly fee) for turning out the boxy design for the bone-rattling, indestructible Jeep in seven days in 1940 after he was asked to build a sturdier vehicle than Germany's war-adapted Volkswagen; after a long illness; in Dayton...
...kept doing it at Wild West shows around the country. Word got around, others tried it, and a native American sport-bulldogging, or steer wrestling*-was born. When the rodeo finally caught on as a spectator sport in the 1930s, steer wrestling became one of its most spectacular and bone-crushing events...
...seems to echo the savory words of Mark Twain, printed in 1892 by the New York Sun: "What I have been through in these two weeks would free a person of pretty much everything in him that wasn't nailed there-any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They say they can cure any ailment...
While the present level of radioactivity is still below the "permissible" limits established by the Radiation Council, the Council estimates that the radioactive debris from the 1962 series may produce as many as 1,450 cases of bone cancer and leukemia. Further, 110-139 babies with gross physical or mental defects will be born in the next generation; 3000-5000 such babies will appear in future generations...