Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Declaration of Independence to read, 'We pledge our lives, our sacred honor, and up to $1,000' "-finds the current state of campaign humor "dreadful." Columnist Robert Yoakum polled nearly three dozen White House correspondents for their opinion of Administration humor. Not one rated the Ford funny bone favorably, and Washington Post Reporter Lou Cannon placed it "slightly ahead of the Federal Register and somewhat behind the Congressional Record...
...strike activities of the past several weeks--feel that the strike has thrown the campus back to a '60s-like milieu; the classic confrontation between Administration and Radical Student is again being played out, but with an internal labor dispute, rather than a war, the principal bone of contention. They point out, perhaps justifiably, that the only movement in the strike--which began, for nearly 350 service workers, in early July-came almost immediately after student actions in support of the walkout. In fact, the service workers' strike was settled the day after the eleven were arrested...
...physician friends to defend them in a malpractice suit brought by an elderly man whom they had treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with broken chicken bones. Then Lincoln turned to the plaintiff and said, "Mr. Fleming, instead of bringing suit against these surgeons, you should go on your knees and thank God and them that you have your leg. Most other practitioners would have insisted...
...driven to this." Egret Birdsnoot has no hard feelings about his injury: "It was just a tap on the head. They had to keep order and prevent panic, and they did. Very impressive fellows." Marta and Bertha kiss each of the hijackers goodbye. Egret shakes hands and promises to bone up on the ideals of the Cretin movement...
...among historians. Is it a comment on the vanitas of earthly possessions and power, the transience of those grave young faces and minutely delineated objects? A comment on the relativity of painting to the real world? A heraldic device? A grim play between the German words hohle Bein (hollow bone) and the artist's own name? Or, given the elaborate nature of 16th century wit, is it all of these and more? Few early anamorphic paintings that survive are as complete in their illusion as this one. One of them is a portrait of Edward VI, painted...