Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rail-thin Videla, known as el Hueso (the Bone), is regarded as a moderate within the junta. Videla, who has resisted demands from hard-liners like Navy Admiral Emilio Massera for sterner repression of intellectuals and students, is committed to restoring civilian rule "once the situation permits." The military, he says, "does not have a totalitarian calling." Nonetheless, some Argentines fear there are high-ranking officers who would like to establish a neofascist regime...
...BEFORE what turned out to be E. Power Biggs's last major public appearance, the 69-year-old organist fell and broke his right arm. Biggs's physician told him that in order for the bone to heal properly, he would have to forego the next day's solo performance with the Boston Pops, so that the cast could dry and set properly. But Biggs chose to neglect his health, rather than his art. The next day at Symphony Hall, Biggs positioned the organ so that no one would be able to witness the incredible feat that was to follow...
...been dying to see the skeletons in Harvard's closet, the Museum of Comparitve Zoology has dragged out a few that are 30 feet long and a few hundred million years old and propped them up in a new exhibit dedicated to children and bone lovers everywhere...
...those Nat Sci 10 fanatics who need to bone-up on antiquity, March is fossil month at the museum, and each week over 150 children tour the exhibit which is designed to introduce modern city dwellers to the wonders of fossildom...
...cities ravaged by fire and cholera, he completed his most optimistic essay (Human Energy) on mankind's prospects. When he learned that the Piltdown Man find-in which he had played a minor role-was a well-planned hoax, he preferred to suppose that "someone innocently threw the bone fragments from a neighborhood cottage into the ditch." In his philosophy, evil was to be endured as part of inevitable progress toward good. Sometimes, in fact, his optimism could overwhelm his apprehension of evil; once during a debate that covered the Nazi experiments at Dachau, he told an astonished audience...