Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southern fried chicken can be prepared in endless ways; at its best it has a fine and crispy crust and is cooked so that inside it is moist to the bone. For chicken, ham, breads, jams or jellies there is no strict rule or regulation...
...bone of contention among people who defend holding onto the journalism option is that the committee decided to offer again this year an option called "Fiction"--one which many feel has nothing to do with developing expository writing skills. "We had a fight at a faculty meeting about teaching this creative writing course--one which I don't think is valid," Robbins said. Byker responded with three reasons why he thought "of the two anomalies" in the expository writing curriculum, the fiction course is a more suitable offering: it had a longer history, more demand, and a full-time teacher...
...makeup, for the famous 5 o'clock shadow. Yet even a poor makeup job does not wholly account for his pale, sickly appearance in the first debate. As Ted Rogers, Nixon's radio and TV technical adviser, later explained, "No TV camera, no makeup man can hide bone-weariness, physical fatigue. He was actually sick. He had a fever...
...customer in Mr. Eckhard's barbershop in San Francisco's elegant Fairmont Hotel was turning hot under the collar, both literally and figuratively. Proprietor Eckhard Helmholz, brandishing a wide-toothed bone comb in one hand and a flaming 10-in. jeweler's torch in the other, was preparing to go to work, while cooing assurances that "it isn't nearly as bad as it smells." It turns out to be the blowtorch cut, the hottest innovation in California coiffure circles since Warren Beatty in Shampoo...
...fact also irradiated. But in most cases the technique proved unreliable-in part because of uncertainties about how much X-ray dosage the body could withstand-and was thus abandoned. Rapaport believes, however, that his dog experiments now indicate that these problems could be solved, and that irradiation, plus bone-marrow reconstitution, may eventually offer a way of eliminating troublesome immunosuppressive drug therapy in human transplant recipients as well...