Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even children with the unnatural appetite known as "pica," who eat just about anything they can get their hands on (TIME, Oct. 12), do not chew enough lead to make them ill immediately. In most children it simply accumulates in their bones. But summer sunshine on their skins sets off biochemical changes in their systems-for one thing, it boosts their supply of vitamin D. Summer is also a time of growth spurts, when the development of new bone calls for a fast turnover of calcium-and lead rides alongside the calcium into the bloodstream, to attack the nervous system...
When he picks up the mallet and helmet, Britain's polo-playing Prince Philip, 42, has to take his royal lumps like anyone else. Two years ago, he broke a bone in his left ankle. Last month he fell from his pony, bruised his shoulder. In the Midhurst Town Cup semifinals, Philip, with one goal already to his credit, was hard on the attack when his left elbow was slashed by another player's loose bridle. Pausing only for a hasty bandaging, he re-entered the game and scored another goal, helping his Windsor Park team...
...what one critic called "Shakehall's Henry VI," the emphasis is not on rhetoric but on clarity, with speeches cut to their meaningful core and with action bared to the bone of violence. When writing bridge passages and interpolations, Co-Adapter Barton went back to Shakespeare's own source books-the Chronicles of Holinshed, Hall and Grafton. The Observer's Kenneth Tynan observed that the production "managed to reanimate petrified forests of genealogy so that within half an hour one knows which cousin is on whose uncle's brother's side." Barton, whose past efforts...
...must have carried plenty of water during part of the year, for it supported the Chilcas in some style. They lived in conical houses a dozen feet in diameter, made of reeds, straw and willow branches. Many of these houses still exist, covered with sand and preserved by the bone-dry climate. The carbon 14 test proves that at least 50 of them date from 3750 B.C., when the people of Egypt were not much above the same cultural level...
They ground their beans in stone mortars, and since they lacked pottery, boiled their food with hot stones in gourds. They made attractive ornaments of stone, shell and bone, and their flutes prove that they enjoyed music...