Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skateboarders have been clocked on Sunset Boulevard at more than 42 m.p.h., and claim to reach speeds of 60 m.p.h. Southern California hospitals reported a 100% increase last summer in admissions of teen-agers with broken or fractured limbs, particularly "skateboard elbow," caused by landing funny-bone-first. To cut down the carnage rate, Long Beach, San Diego and other communities have banned skateboarding in the streets and parks; Hollywood Hills' celebrated "Toilet Bowl," a vast, saucer-like storm drain that attracts thousands of skateboard stunters each week, has been modified with antispeed bumps to slow the action; some...
...only a little less remote than painting. It entrances because it moves. Structure spectators that we are, cushioned and slouching in adjustable seats, row upon regimented row, the directors have to creep on shoeless feet. Camouflaged by pathos, bathos, and gales of laughter, their goal is our back-bone. Else they impale themselves, as Bergman often does, on our pointy little heads...
With her back to the large mirror she held the one small one so that she could see her back. A shiny, pale pink seam ran down the lower part of her spine; near the top of her left buttock, the crescent scar where they'd taken the bone for the spinal fusion matched the large seam in color. She shivered. In the six years since the operation she had never looked at her naked back...
...canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane Red Sox junkie would shake his or her head, order up another stiff one, and forget about it--think about the Baltimore Orioles and other more immediate matters. Hell, the sportswriters, who treated Rice like nothing short...
...against the pride of their neighbors. But race-track betting is outlawed in Texas. As a result, the twin capitals of quarter-horse racing−and the site of the All-American Futurity for 17 years−are the adjoining towns of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs, located in the bone-dry Sacramento Mountains, across the state line from El Paso. Every Labor Day weekend the population of these sleepy communities soars from 5,000 to 35,000 as quarter-horse fanatics swarm in by Cadillac and Continental Mark IV, jam the local airstrip with private jets, and fill every hotel...