Word: bone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is some evidence that Australopithecus used a bone club, fashioned from the lower part of an antelope but the proof is not conclusive. It satisfies Ardrey, and he jumps to a definition of man as a weapon-maker. The weapon, he claims, is "the hallmark of our culture...
...multiple autobiographical method, Lewis says that the several lives serve as a check on each other - the text reveals the consistently human trait of thinking better of oneself than others do. The biggest bone of contention with many critics has rather been with the fact that Lewis "edited and arranged" the material. I cannot agree with those who would see a distortion in his skillful job, however, for there are many spots in the text where the narrative jumps in an unavoidable illogical fashion from one experience to another. Furthermore, he will make the tapes available to any colleague...
...their haste they printed upside down. S.A.O. gunmen murdered Commandant Andre Boulle, chief of gendarmerie at Sidi-bel-Abbas, just as he was about to take a plane to Paris to be commended for exceptional service. As the steamer Ville de Bordeaux was about to cast off from Bone harbor bound for France with a returning force of security police, a hidden bomb killed four, including the young son of a policeman...
...intellectual aims-nearly 400 of the original freshman class of 570 have dropped out. The few hard-working survivors on the vast campus endured everything from overblown rumors of faculty dissension to the news that the money-strapped Michigan state legislature had cut Oakland's budget to the bone...
...that Algérie française is dead, and 2) it does not wish to go against the will of the French nation, which is overwhelmingly for an Algerian settlement. De Gaulle guesses that when the French-F.L.N. treaty is signed, the S.A.O. might seize Algiers, Oran, and possibly Bone. He is betting that the army will then obey his orders to cordon off the S.A.O. rebel cities and choke them into submission...