Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call a cerebrovascular accident or CVA) seems superficially simple: a shutdown of any kind in one of the arteries in the neck or head cuts off the essential supply of blood and oxygen to part of the brain, which then "dies." For unlike cells in flesh, or even in bone, which go on multiplying until near the end of life, brain cells have virtually no power to reproduce themselves. Medicine can only rely on whatever self-healing capacity the damaged brain area has-or find some way to stimulate another part of the brain to take over the functions...
...facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats-the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against...
Beyond the Fringe offers the lucid and lunatic drolleries of four young English antiEstablishmentarians. God, Shakespeare, nuclear defense-name it, they slam it, right in the funny bone...
East Berlin resembled the weather-leaden grey skies, bone-chilling wind, a damp slurry of mud and snow. The city was dark, and the shops were sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially...
...decisions on building new plants or buying new machines, and chopped away at their payrolls. U.S. Steel cut its work force by 10%, and for the first time since the Depression sliced into its executive ranks to fire 1,000 supervisors. Manufacturers cut their stockpiles to the bone, and inventories were reduced to their lowest level in relation to sales in seven years...