Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detail sometimes betrays him into concerts that are flat and dull. He has a tendency these days to conduct with perfection rather than passion-falling back on his tremendous knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened...
...with a couple of bakeries in his pocket." Weston never lost sight of his original goal-more outlets for Canadian wheat. Says he: "I'm not an intellectual, and my success has not been due to brilliance but to sticking to an idea like a dog to a bone...
Although President Kennedy has on occasion made polite gestures to Dr. Jagan and his government, no proposals regarding foreign aid or technical assistance have as yet emerged from State Department channels. In his interview last spring with Alexei Adzhubie, editor of Izvestia, the President emphasized that America had no bone to pick with a democratically elected Marxist regime such as that of British Guiana. Yet all appeals of Dr. Jagan for technical development loans from the United States have come to no avail...
...gleeful Giant dressing room, First Baseman Orlando Cepeda wrapped Willie Mays in his massive arms, hoisted him on a table and poured champagne in his ear. Then the bone-weary Giants flew off to San Francisco to play the cool, efficient Yankees in the World Series-and baseball was back to Dullsville. Yankee Whitey Ford and Giant Jack Sanford turned in masterful pitching performances, and after 18 cool, efficient innings, the series was even at one game apiece...
...first prehistoric burial discovered at Sardis came to light a short distance south of the synagogue. On the very last day of the excavation, an archaeologist found a jar lying on its side at the bottom of a 35-foot pit. Fragments of bone showed traces left by fire...